Ensuring Fee-Free Benefit Transactions Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4158 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4158

   To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make permanent the 
              moratorium on SNAP benefit transaction fees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 26, 2025

  Ms. Brown (for herself and Mr. Wied) introduced the following bill; 
           which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make permanent the 
              moratorium on SNAP benefit transaction fees.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ensuring Fee-Free Benefit 
Transactions Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITED FEES.

    Section 7(h)(13)(B) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2016(h)(13)(B)) is amended to read as follows:
                    ``(B) Other fees.--
                            ``(i) Prohibition.--Neither a State, nor 
                        any agent, contractor, or subcontractor of a 
                        State who facilitates the provision of 
                        supplemental nutrition assistance program 
                        benefits in such State may impose a fee on a 
                        SNAP authorized retailer for EBT transactions 
                        including switching (as defined in subsection 
                        (j)(1)(H)) or routing such benefits, for costs 
                        to implement subsections (d) and (f)(5)(B).
                            ``(ii) Exception.--The prohibition against 
                        fees described in clause (i) shall not apply 
                        towards costs associated with equipment 
                        rentals.''.

SEC. 3. APPLICATION OF AMENDMENT.

    The amendment made by section 2 shall be applied to supersede the 
provisions of title IV of division HH of the Consolidation 
Appropriations Act, 2023 or any agency action taken under the authority 
of such provisions.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendment made by this Act shall take effect 
October 1, 2025.
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