HR 2496 119th Congress House Agriculture and Food

Dairy Nutrition Incentive Program Act of 2025

Introduced: December 16, 2025 Introduced by: Costa, Jim Democratic · California See on congress.gov

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Apr 18, 2025

Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.

Mar 31, 2025

Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Mar 31, 2025

Introduced in House

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Dairy Nutrition Incentive Program Act of 2025

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a dairy nutrition incentive program to develop and test methods to increase the purchase and consumption of dairy under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Specifically, the program must provide an incentive to SNAP benefit recipients for the purchase of naturally nutrient-rich dairy, which the bill defines to include fluid milk, yogurt, and cheese made from cow's milk. To carry out the program, USDA must enter into cooperative agreements with, or provide competitive grants to, state or local governments and nonprofit organizations for projects. The bill provides funding for the program for each fiscal year.

USDA must provide for an independent evaluation of each project that measures, to the maximum extent practicable, the effect of incentives on purchases of naturally nutrient-rich dairy by SNAP recipients.

Projects currently carried out by the USDA Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives (HFMI) program must be transitioned to the new dairy nutrition incentive program; the bill repeals the HFMI program one year after USDA certifies that the transition is complete.

What's happening now April 18, 2025

Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.

Related & companion bills 1

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Committees of jurisdiction 2

Agriculture Committee
House of Representatives
Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Subcommittee
House of Representatives · subcommittee of Agriculture Committee

Lobbying activity 34

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

DAIRY FARMERS OF AMERICA, INC.
for DAIRY FARMERS OF AMERICA INC · Kansas · 2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
ETKA CONSULTING
for MIDWEST DAIRY COALITION · Wisconsin · 2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
ETKA CONSULTING
for MIDWEST DAIRY COALITION · Wisconsin · 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2026
NATIONAL MILK PRODUCERS FEDERATION
for NATIONAL MILK PRODUCERS FEDERATION · Virginia · 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2026
THE GARRISON GROUP LLC
for IDAHO DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION · Idaho · 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2026
THE GARRISON GROUP LLC
for SOUTH EAST DAIRY FARMERS ASSOCIATION · District of Columbia · 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2026

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Cosponsors 23

Gray, Adam

California · Apr 9, 2026

Bresnahan, Robert P.

Pennsylvania · Dec 18, 2025

Messmer, Mark B.

Indiana · Dec 16, 2025

Tenney, Claudia

New York · Sep 30, 2025

Mann, Tracey

Kansas · Sep 18, 2025

Maloy, Celeste

Utah · Sep 16, 2025

Craig, Angie

Minnesota · Sep 2, 2025

Salinas, Andrea

Oregon · Aug 8, 2025

Wied, Tony

Wisconsin · Jun 6, 2025

Mannion, John W.

New York · Jun 5, 2025

Johnson, Dusty

South Dakota · Apr 28, 2025

Bonamici, Suzanne

Oregon · Mar 31, 2025

Evans, Gabe

Colorado · Mar 31, 2025

Grothman, Glenn

Wisconsin · Mar 31, 2025

Langworthy, Nicholas A.

New York · Mar 31, 2025

Miller, Max L.

Ohio · Mar 31, 2025

Newhouse, Dan

Washington · Mar 31, 2025

Panetta, Jimmy

California · Mar 31, 2025

Pingree, Chellie

Maine · Mar 31, 2025

Riley, Josh

New York · Mar 31, 2025

Rogers, Mike D.

Alabama · Mar 31, 2025

Rouzer, David

North Carolina · Mar 31, 2025

Van Orden, Derrick

Wisconsin · Mar 31, 2025

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