March 26, 2025
Mr. Fetterman (for himself, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Smith, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Wyden, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Welch, Mr. Booker, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Gallego, and Ms. Slotkin) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to ensure that striking workers and their households do not become ineligible for benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes.
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 Food Secure Strikers Act of 2025
.
Sec. 2. Eligibility of striking workers
Section 6(d) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2015(d)) is amended—
(1)
in paragraph (1)(D)—
(A)
by striking clause (iv); and
(B)
by redesignating clauses (v) and (vi) as clauses (iv) and (v), respectively; and
(2)
in paragraph (3)—
(A)
by striking participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program at any time that
and inserting be ineligible to participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program as a result of
;
(B)
by striking is on strike
and inserting being on strike
; and
(C)
by striking : Provided, That
and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting a period.