House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Ensuring Fee-Free Benefit Transactions Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make permanent the moratorium on SNAP benefit transaction fees.
Sponsor: Rep. Shontel Brown D-OHWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 26, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 26, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4158.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. BROWN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 110, June 26, 2025, Page H3011):Article I Section VIIISource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 26, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 22 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4158, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4158
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- November 20, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 November 20, 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
7 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 6 Democrats
1 of 7 cosponsors (14%) are from the other party.
Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Sharice Davids (D-KS), Shomari Figures (D-AL), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Jill Tokuda (D-HI), Tony Wied (R-WI).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Shontel Brown.
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- H.R. 989 (119th) To codify Executive Order 11246 titled "Equal Employment Opportunity".
- H.R. 2489 (119th) Hunger-Free Future Act of 2025
- H.Res. 48 (119th) Honoring Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by celebrating diversity, promoting tolerance, and condemning hate.
- H.Res. 1004 (119th) Honoring Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by celebrating diversity, promoting tolerance, and condemning hate.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.