Ensuring Fee-Free Benefit Transactions Act of 2023
United States118th CongressS-2449Senate
Updated: Jul 20, 2023
Summary
Ensuring Fee-Free Benefit Transactions Act of 2023 This bill makes permanent the prohibition on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit transaction fees. The current prohibition expires at the end of FY2023. The bill also specifies that the prohibition applies to states (and any agent, contractor, or subcontractor of a state who facilitates the provision of SNAP benefits) for costs for fraud prevention tools, coverage of infrastructure costs, and other costs associated with updating the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) processing infrastructure.
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Timeline
Latest companion bill action
HR-4103: Ensuring Fee-Free Benefit Transactions Act of 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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