Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
The bill (SNAP Next Step Act of 2025) amends the Food and Nutrition Act to allow State SNAP agencies to use administrative funds to recruit and provide Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) employment and training services to certain SNAP recipients who are unemployed or underemployed and not receiving TANF or enrolled in State Employment First programs. It also authorizes States to publish an online employment calculator to help SNAP recipients compare SNAP benefits to potential earnings; creating the calculator is treated as an administrative cost.
Liberals stress need for supports and safeguards for trainees
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill effectuates a focused statutory change by defining eligible participants and authorizing State agencies to use SNAP administrative funds to recruit and provide WIOA subtitle B employment and training services, and by requiring a publicly available employment calculator, but it provides limited implementation, funding, and oversight detail.
The bill (SNAP Next Step Act of 2025) amends the Food and Nutrition Act to allow State SNAP agencies to use administrative funds to recruit and provide Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) employment and training services to certain SNAP recipients who are unemployed or underemployed and not receiving TANF or enrolled in State Employment First programs.
It also authorizes States to publish an online employment calculator to help SNAP recipients compare SNAP benefits to potential earnings; creating the calculator is treated as an administrative cost.
Relatively low-cost, administratively focused, and voluntary—favors enactment—but not urgent and could stall amid competing priorities.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill effectuates a focused statutory change by defining eligible participants and authorizing State agencies to use SNAP administrative funds to recruit and provide WIOA subtitle B employment and training services, and by requiring a publicly available employment calculator, but it provides limited implementation, funding, and oversight detail.
Liberals stress need for supports and safeguards for trainees
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Liberals stress need for supports and safeguards for trainees
Likely cautiously supportive: expands voluntary access to federally defined training for SNAP recipients, but raises concerns about implementation details and supports.
Views the proposal as potentially helpful if paired with protections, wraparound services, and quality training.
Generally favorable as a pragmatic, low-cost way to promote employment through existing programs.
Wants clear metrics, guardrails against unintended consequences, and assurances about state capacity and cost control.
Likely supportive because it emphasizes work and connects benefits recipients to training without expanding SNAP benefits.
May prefer stronger work participation requirements but sees the bill as a step toward self-sufficiency.
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Relatively low-cost, administratively focused, and voluntary—favors enactment—but not urgent and could stall amid competing priorities.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Liberals stress need for supports and safeguards for trainees
Relatively low-cost, administratively focused, and voluntary—favors enactment—but not urgent and could stall amid competing priorities.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill effectuates a focused statutory change by defining eligible participants and authorizing State agencies to use SNAP administrative funds to recruit and provide WIOA s…
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