Improving Access to Nutrition Act of 2026
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill removes SNAP work-requirement language from the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008. Its findings cite SNAP's role in food security, health, poverty reduction, children's educational advancement, and economic stimulus, including estimates that $1 in SNAP benefits during downturns generates $1.50 to $1.80 in economic activity. The bill cites risks to about 6.1 million people subject to work requirements, health impediments that affect compliance, administrative bureaucracy reducing participation, disproportionate effects on Black Americans, and families experiencing homelessness leaving programs when work requirements apply. The amendments strike section 6(o) and related references throughout SNAP eligibility and state performance provisions.
Who Benefits and How
SNAP recipients, adults subject to work requirements, households with school-aged children, Black SNAP participants, families experiencing homelessness, and people with health impediments benefit because benefit access would no longer depend on the repealed work-requirement framework. State agencies also avoid administering several work-requirement tracking and performance provisions.
Who Bears the Burden and How
USDA Food and Nutrition Service and state SNAP agencies must update eligibility systems, notices, caseworker training, and quality-control procedures to remove section 6(o) references. Policymakers who favored work requirements lose that eligibility condition as a benefit-control tool.
Key Provisions
- States findings that SNAP improves food security, health, poverty outcomes, children's education, and downturn economic activity.
- Repeals Food and Nutrition Act section 6(o), the SNAP work-requirement provision, and removes related references.
- Strikes state performance and administrative references tied to individuals subject to section 6(o).
- Reduces the risk of SNAP terminations for people unable to comply with work requirements because of health, homelessness, caregiving, or labor-market barriers.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Repeals SNAP work-requirement provisions and related administrative references in the Food and Nutrition Act to prevent benefit loss tied to work-rule noncompliance.
Key Policy Areas
Social Services, Food & Beverage, Labor
Primary Purpose
Repeals SNAP work-requirement provisions and related administrative references in the Food and Nutrition Act to prevent benefit loss tied to work-rule noncompliance.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- SNAP recipients
- Households with school-aged children
- Black SNAP participants
- Families experiencing homelessness
- State SNAP agencies
Identified Costs
- USDA Food and Nutrition Service
- State SNAP agencies
- SNAP eligibility workers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House
Ms. Adams (for herself, Mrs. Hayes, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Households with school-aged children, SNAP eligibility workers, SNAP recipients
Positive-direction: Households with school-aged children, SNAP recipients, State SNAP agencies
Negative-direction: SNAP eligibility workers
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "snap"
- → Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
- "state_agencies"
- → State agencies administering SNAP
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