Ensuring Emergency Food Security Act
Latest action · Mar 10, 2020 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Progress
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- IntroducedMar 10, 2020
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Ensuring Emergency Food Security Act
This bill expands benefits and eligibility under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) which is administered by the Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Specifically, the bill
- prohibits any federal funding (including fees) from being used to decrease program benefits or impact program eligibility under SNAP;
- temporarily increases the value of SNAP benefits through FY2020;
- prohibits USDA from reducing the value of the maximum allotments, minimum allotments or consolidated block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa below the level in effect for FY2020 as a result of such increase;
- temporarily suspends work requirements through FY2022 under SNAP, allowing participants who would have lost eligibility due to such requirements to continue to receive SNAP benefits;
- directs state agencies, beginning on October 1, 2022, to disregard any period during which an individual received SNAP benefits prior to FY2022, for purposes of referring such individual to an employment and training program; and
- expands the food distribution program on Indian reservations for costs relating to facility improvements and equipment upgrades.
Cosponsors 12
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 10, 2020 to Jul 24, 2020, with 5 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Mar 10, 2020 |
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Original | Mar 10, 2020 |
| D-CT | Jahana Hayes | Original | Mar 10, 2020 |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Original | Mar 10, 2020 |
| D-OH | Marcia L. Fudge | Original | Mar 10, 2020 |
| D-NM | Debra A. Haaland | Mar 11, 2020 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Mar 11, 2020 | |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Mar 11, 2020 | |
| D-MA | Joseph P. Kennedy III | Mar 12, 2020 | |
| D-MA | Seth Moulton | Mar 12, 2020 | |
| D-CO | Joe Neguse | Jul 13, 2020 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Jul 24, 2020 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 10, 2020Introduced in House
- Mar 10, 2020Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Agriculture and Food
- American Samoa
- Appropriations
- Caribbean area
- Department of Agriculture
- Food assistance and relief
- Indian social and development programs
- Nutrition and diet
- Poverty and welfare assistance
- Puerto Rico
- State and local finance
- State and local government operations
- U.S. territories and protectorates
- Unemployment
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 10, 2020Introduced in House
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