Cosponsor
Sign in

HR 4797 · in committee · major

EATS Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • This bill expands SNAP food assistance eligibility to include students attending college or higher education at least half-time.
  • College and university students ages 18-49 who currently cannot access SNAP benefits are affected by this change.
  • The bill removes existing work-hour and dependent-care restrictions for eligible students with no specified cost or implementation date.

Generated by claude-haiku-4-5

Community Threads

Started by Cosponsor

  1. 01

    How would expanding SNAP eligibility to half-time college students affect program costs, and should funding come from current SNAP allocations or new appropriations?

  2. 02

    What barriers prevent current college students from meeting existing work-hour requirements, and would removing these restrictions benefit students in different academic or employment situations equally?

  3. 03

    Which students would gain the most access to SNAP under this bill, and could income-based eligibility limits better target assistance to those with the greatest financial need?

Cosponsor writes these to seed civic discussion — they aren't user posts. Sign in to reply.

Sponsor · D-CA-34

Jimmy Gomez

Citizen cosponsors

0

In Congress

138/ 435

House Reps cosponsoring

Introduced 2025-07-29

Joining the bill

+ 126 more

Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-07-29 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

  2. 2025-07-29 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  3. 2025-07-29 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

Congress.gov ↗

Citizen comments

Sign in to comment on this bill.

No comments yet — be the first.