SNAP Administrator Retention Act of 2025
Summary
SNAP Administrator Retention Act of 2025 This bill directs the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to pay Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) state agencies for 100% of SNAP administrative personnel costs. The bill also requires that state SNAP agency administrators be paid at least the same amount as federal employees. (Under current law, FNS generally pays 50% of a state's administrative costs for SNAP.) Specifically, FNS must pay a state agency for 100% of all SNAP administrative personnel costs that are part of an FNS-approved state agency personnel wage plan. This must include all costs associated with hiring and training new employees, maintaining those personnel costs, and complying with wage standards. The state agency must use these funds (1) to supplement, not supplant, nonfederal funds used for existing administrative personnel costs; and (2) for existing or additional full-time positions that are above the number of positions that were held in FY2024. The bill also requires that the wage standards for SNAP state agency administrators be (1) at least the same amount as the General Schedule (GS) pay rate for federal employees; and (2) updated annually based on any increase in the GS pay rate, including locality adjustments.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced May 15, 2025
Last action May 15, 2025
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Committee
1
May 15, 2025
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
lower
May 15, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 26 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jahana Hayes
DDemocratic
Co
Adam Smith
DDemocratic
Co
April McClain Delaney
DDemocratic
Co
Christopher R. Deluzio
DDemocratic
Co
Eleanor Holmes Norton
DDemocratic
Co
James P. McGovern
DDemocratic
Co
Jill N. Tokuda
DDemocratic
Co
Jim Costa
DDemocratic
Co
John W. Mannion
DDemocratic
Co
Jonathan L. Jackson
DDemocratic
Co
Joseph D. Morelle
DDemocratic
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