Bridge to Summer Nutrition Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6819 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6819

  To reduce State administrative costs for administration of both the 
supplemental nutrition assistance program under the Food and Nutrition 
  Act of 2008 and the summer electronic benefits transfer program for 
        children under the Richard B. Russell School Lunch Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 17, 2025

 Mr. David Scott of Georgia (for himself, Mrs. McBath, Mr. Bishop, Mr. 
Cohen, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Kennedy of 
  New York, Ms. Norton, Ms. Titus, Mr. Walkinshaw, and Ms. Wilson of 
   Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education 
   and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To reduce State administrative costs for administration of both the 
supplemental nutrition assistance program under the Food and Nutrition 
  Act of 2008 and the summer electronic benefits transfer program for 
        children under the Richard B. Russell School Lunch Act.

    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 ``Bridge to Summer Nutrition Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. INCREASED PAYMENTS TO STATE FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.

    For each fiscal year in which a State operates the summer 
electronic benefits transfer program for children under section 13A of 
the Richard B. Russell School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1762), the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall pay to such State 90 percent of the monthly 
administrative costs incurred in such fiscal year described for--
            (1) the summer electronic benefits transfer program for 
        children in section 13A of the Richard B. Russell School Lunch 
        Act (42 U.S.C. 1762), and
            (2) the supplemental nutrition assistance program in 
        section 16(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
        2025(a)).
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