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Senate Bill 1156
119th Congress(2025-2026)
Food Secure Strikers Act of 2025
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Introduced in Senate on Mar 26, 2025
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S. 1156 (Introduced-in-Senate)


119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1156


To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to ensure that striking workers and their households do not become ineligible for benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes.


IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

March 26, 2025

Mr. Fetterman (for himself, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Smith, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Wyden, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Welch, Mr. Booker, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Gallego, and Ms. Slotkin) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry


A BILL

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to ensure that striking workers and their households do not become ineligible for benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Food Secure Strikers Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. Eligibility of striking workers.

Section 6(d) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2015(d)) is amended—

(1) in paragraph (1)(D)—

(A) by striking clause (iv); and

(B) by redesignating clauses (v) and (vi) as clauses (iv) and (v), respectively; and

(2) in paragraph (3)—

(A) by striking “participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program at any time that” and inserting “be ineligible to participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program as a result of”;

(B) by striking “is on strike” and inserting “being on strike”; and

(C) by striking “: Provided, That” and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting a period.