S 2449
118th Congress
Senate
Agriculture and Food
Ensuring Fee-Free Benefit Transactions Act of 2023
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 20, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Jul 20, 2023
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Ensuring Fee-Free Benefit Transactions Act of 2023
This bill makes permanent the prohibition on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit transaction fees. The current prohibition expires at the end of FY2023.
The bill also specifies that the prohibition applies to states (and any agent, contractor, or subcontractor of a state who facilitates the provision of SNAP benefits) for costs for fraud prevention tools, coverage of infrastructure costs, and other costs associated with updating the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) processing infrastructure.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1