S. 1202
119th Congress
Senate
Hot Foods Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to permit supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to be used to purchase additional types of food items.
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 31, 2025
Introduced in Senate
Mar 31, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Plain-English summary
Hot Foods Act of 2025
This bill expands the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to permit the use of SNAP benefits to purchase hot foods or hot food products ready for immediate consumption.
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Bill text
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Committees of jurisdiction
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Lobbying activity
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- FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER
- ATLAS CROSSING LLC
- ATLAS CROSSING LLC
- WHEAT SHROYER GOVERNMENT RELATIONS LLC
- FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER
- ATLAS CROSSING LLC
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
- Education, Dept of
- White House Office
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1202: Hot Foods Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1202/
"S. 1202: Hot Foods Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1202/.
S. 1202, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1202/.
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