House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
SNAP Benefits Fairness Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to repeal the limitation on the maximum deduction for shelter expenses allowable for determination of benefits under such Act.
Sponsor: Rep. LaMonica McIver D-NJWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 28, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 28, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 793.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. McIVER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 18, January 28, 2025, Page H407):Spending Clause, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 Necessary and Proper Clause, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 28, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 108 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 793, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/793
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 3, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 12, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of September 3, 2026). 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
36 cosponsors — 36 Democrats
0 of 36 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Wesley Bell (D-MO), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Troy Carter (D-LA), Greg Casar (D-TX), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Shomari Figures (D-AL), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA), William Keating (D-MA), Summer Lee (D-PA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Kevin Mullin (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Stacey Plaskett (D-VI), Emily Randall (D-WA), Terri Sewell (D-AL), Lateefah Simon (D-CA), Adam Smith (D-WA), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and 6 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. LaMonica McIver.
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- H.R. 1835 (119th) MERIT Act
- H.R. 307 (119th) ARC Act of 2025
- H.R. 2948 (119th) Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act of 2025
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.