U.S. Congress legislation · 119th Congress
HB6819: Bridge to Summer Nutrition Act of 2025
Status: In committee, May 20, 2026
To reduce State administrative costs for administration of both the supplemental nutrition assistance program under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 and the summer electronic benefits transfer program for children under the Richard B. Russell School Lunch Act.
What the bill says
To reduce State administrative costs for administration of both the supplemental nutrition assistance program under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 and the summer electronic benefits transfer program for children under the Richard B. Russell School Lunch Act.
From the introduced text, December 17, 2025:
A BILL To reduce State administrative costs for administration of both the supplemental nutrition assistance program under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 and the summer electronic benefits transfer program for children under the Richard B. Russell School Lunch Act. SECTION 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Bridge to Summer Nutrition Act of 2025 . SECTION 2. Increased payments to State for administrative costs For each fiscal year in which a State operates the summer electronic benefits transfer program for children under section 13A of the Richard B. Russell School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1762 ), the Secretary of Agriculture shall pay to such State 90 percent of the monthly administrative costs incurred in such fiscal year described for-- (1) the summer electronic benefits transfer program for children in section 13A of the Richard B. Russell School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1762 ), and (2) the supplemental nutrition assistance program in section 16(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2025(a) ).
Sponsors
- David Scott (D, HD-GA-13) · primary sponsor
- Lucy McBath (D, HD-006)
- Sanford Bishop (D, HD-002)
- Steve Cohen (D, HD-009)
- Daniel Goldman (D, 10)
- Henry Johnson (D, HD-004)
- Timothy Kennedy (D, HD-026)
- Norton, Eleanor (D, HD-000)
- Dina Titus (D, HD-001)
- James Walkinshaw (D, HD-011)
- Frederica Wilson (D, HD-FL-24)
- April McClain-Delaney (D, HD-MD-6)
Latest actions
- : Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
- : Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- : Introduced in House
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Common questions
- What is HB6819?
- HB6819 is a bill in Congress (119th Congress): Bridge to Summer Nutrition Act of 2025.
- What does HB6819 do?
- In its own words: To reduce State administrative costs for administration of both the supplemental nutrition assistance program under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 and the summer electronic benefits transfer program for children under the Richard B. Russell School Lunch Act.
- What is the status of HB6819?
- In committee as of May 20, 2026. Latest action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture. (May 20, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB6819?
- David Scott (D, HD-GA-13), with 11 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for HB6819?
- On the Congress website: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6819
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