Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Ensuring Fee-Free Benefit Transactions Act of 2023”.
Ensuring Fee-Free Benefit Transactions Act of 2023
A BILL
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make permanent the moratorium on SNAP benefit transaction fees, and other purposes.
Sec. 2 Amendments
Section 7 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) is amended—
in subsection (d) by inserting “including completeness of fraud protection and prevention tools and coverage of infrastructure cost” before the period at the end,
in subsection (f)(5)(B)(ii) by inserting “and require State agencies to review existing technology and contract requirements during each contracting period to ensure the EBT technology reflects commercial standards to ensure security of benefits” before the period at the end, and
in subsection (h)(13)(B)—
by striking “Effective through fiscal year 2023, neither” and inserting “Neither”, and
by inserting “, for costs to implement subsections (d) and (f)(5)(B) of section 7, or for other costs associated with updating the EBT processing infrastructure” before the period at the end.
Sec. 3 Application of amendments
The amendments made by section 2 shall be applied to supersede the provisions of title IV of division HH of the Consolidation Appropriations Act, 2023 or any agency action taken under the authority of such provisions.
Sec. 4 Effective date
This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect October 1, 2023.