House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
SNAP Benefits Fairness Act of 2023
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 23, 2023
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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Latest action: Dec 16, 2024 — ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mrs. McIver asked unanimous consent that she may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 1765, a bill originally introduced by Representative Payne, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1765.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PAYNE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 53, March 23, 2023, Page H1411):The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the power of Congress to make rules for the for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States, as enumerated in Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is, NutritionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 23, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 291 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1765, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1765
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of March 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
22 cosponsors — 22 Democrats
0 of 22 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Greg Casar (D-TX), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Jesús García (D-IL), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), William Keating (D-MA), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Morgan McGarvey (D-KY), James McGovern (D-MA), Kevin Mullin (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Mary Peltola (D-AK), Stacey Plaskett (D-VI), Adam Smith (D-WA), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Donald Payne.
- H.R. 3254 (118th) First Responder Access to Innovative Technologies Act
- H.R. 4261 (118th) ARC Act of 2023
- H.R. 3382 (118th) Colorectal Cancer Payment Fairness Act
- H.R. 3255 (118th) Freight Rail Workforce Health and Safety Act
- H.Res. 1050 (118th) Supporting the designation of March 2024 as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
- H.Res. 700 (118th) Expressing support for the designation of September 2023 as "National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month".
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 14, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.