House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Securing Strictly Needy Americans’ Pivotal (SNAP) Benefits Act of 2023
Sponsor: Rep. David Rouzer R-NCWhere it went
- IntroducedDec 7, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 25, 2024 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6657.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ROUZER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 202, December 7, 2023, Page H6741):Article I, Section VIII The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 and the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to limit the Nutrition applicable to the use of electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards to purchase food.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 7, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 262 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6657, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6657
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 2, 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 June 2, 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
5 cosponsors — 5 Republicans
0 of 5 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Mark Alford (R-MO), Don Bacon (R-NE), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Trent Kelly (R-MS), Austin Scott (R-GA).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. David Rouzer.
- H.R. 524 (118th) To amend the Coastal Barrier Resources Act to create an exemption for certain shoreline borrow sites.
- H.R. 7023 (118th) Creating Confidence in Clean Water Permitting Act
- H.R. 1101 (118th) Lumbee Fairness Act
- H.R. 3591 (118th) Asylum Accountability Act
- H.R. 1605 (118th) Natural Disaster Recovery Program Act of 2023
- H.R. 5089 (118th) Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2023
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.