SNAP Data Transparency and Oversight Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6520 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6520

   To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require States to 
   provide recipient-level data to the Secretary of Agriculture upon 
                                request.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 9, 2025

   Mr. Finstad (for himself, Mr. Stauber, Mr. Rose, and Mr. Taylor) 
 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 require States to 
   provide recipient-level data to the Secretary of Agriculture upon 
                                request.

    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 Data Transparency and Oversight 
Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. STATE REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE SNAP RECIPIENT DATA TO THE 
              SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.

    Section 11 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2020) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(y) Provision of Recipient Data to the Secretary.--
            ``(1) As a condition of participation in the supplemental 
        nutrition assistance program, each State agency shall, upon 
        request of the Secretary, provide to the Secretary recipient-
        level data, case file information, or any other program data 
        necessary for the administration, oversight, integrity, or 
        enforcement of the program.
            ``(2) Data required under paragraph (1) shall be 
        transmitted in such form, manner, frequency, and within such 
        time frame as the Secretary may prescribe, including through 
        secure electronic data transfer systems designated by the 
        Secretary.
            ``(3) A State agency shall provide the requested data not 
        later than 30 days after the date of the Secretary's request, 
        unless the Secretary establishes a shorter timeline for urgent 
        program integrity, audit, or investigative purposes.
            ``(4) Failure to comply with a data request issued under 
        this subsection may result in the withholding or suspension of 
        Federal administrative funds under this Act.
            ``(5) The Secretary shall ensure that all data received 
        under this subsection is subject to applicable Federal laws and 
        safeguards governing the privacy and security of program 
        records, including the Privacy Act of 1974.
            ``(6) Such data may be disclosed to any Federal law 
        enforcement and investigative agency, and law enforcement and 
        investigative agency of a State, for purposes of administering 
        or enforcing this Act, regulations issued under this Act, or 
        any other Federal or State law.
            ``(7) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to 
        limit any existing authority of the Secretary to access State 
        data or records for program oversight, enforcement, audit, or 
        evaluation purposes.''.
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