Snap Delivery Modernization Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6135 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6135

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to increase food access for 
  recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits by 
permitting the use of benefits to pay the related cost of food delivery 
                               services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 19, 2025

  Mr. Fields 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 increase food access for 
  recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits by 
permitting the use of benefits to pay the related cost of food delivery 
                               services.

    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 ``Snap Delivery Modernization Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) is 
amended--
            (1) in section 3 by adding the following definition--
                    ``(X) `Delivery platform or delivery services 
                provider' means an entity that--
            ``(1) facilitates the online-sale, or delivery, or both, of 
        food from a retail food store; or
            ``(2) delivers food purchased from a retail food store, 
        including using a first-party delivery service or contracting 
        with a third-party to complete delivery.''.
            (2) in section 3(o)(5)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (B)--
                            (i) by striking ``order--'' and all that 
                        follows through ``(i)'', and
                            (ii) by striking clause (ii), and
                    (B) in subparagraph (C) by inserting ``(excluding 
                related fees for delivery of the food)'' before the 
                period at the end, and
            (3) in section 7(k)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (2)(B)--
                            (i) by striking ``delivery,'', and
                            (ii) by inserting ``(excluding delivery 
                        fees charged by the retail food store or a 
                        delivery platform or delivery service)'' after 
                        ``charges'', and
                    (B) in subparagraph (C)(i)--
                            (i) by striking ``delivery,'', and
                            (ii) by inserting ``(excluding delivery 
                        fees charged by a retail food store, or a 
                        delivery platform or delivery service)'' after 
                        ``purchase''.
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