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The bill improves food-safety, payment security, and worker protections for online SNAP transactions but creates added compliance and cost pressures that could reduce retailer participation and local access for some SNAP recipients.
Low-income SNAP participants (including families) will get safer, more secure online and mobile SNAP transactions and reduced foodborne risk because platforms and delivery must meet security and food-safety standards.
Delivery workers who handle SNAP orders can benefit from fairer pay and improved safety because the standards explicitly promote prevailing wages and safer working conditions.
Retailers seeking or maintaining SNAP authorization get clearer compliance rules for online SNAP redemption, which can increase program consistency and trust for sellers and shoppers.
SNAP participants in areas with few authorized retailers (including rural communities) risk losing local access to benefits if nearby stores are decertified for noncompliance, reducing convenience and access to food.
Some small retailers and wholesalers will face increased compliance costs to meet online security and delivery wage standards, risking loss of SNAP authorization if they cannot comply.
Requiring prevailing wages and delivery labor standards could raise delivery costs, which may be passed on to consumers or absorbed by SNAP budgets, reducing affordability or seller participation.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires USDA FNS to set standards for safe online/mobile SNAP use and delivery rules that ensure food safety and fair worker pay, with retailer reporting and SNAP-authorization enforcement.
Introduced March 24, 2026 by Shomari C. Figures · Last progress March 24, 2026
Directs the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), working with other federal agencies and stakeholders, to set standards for safe online and mobile use of SNAP and to set delivery standards for SNAP food purchases that promote food safety and fair working conditions (including paying prevailing wages). Retailers and wholesalers seeking SNAP authorization would have to report how they comply with the standards; failure to comply can be a basis for losing SNAP authorization until compliance is demonstrated. Requires FNS to publish regulations to implement the standards within 18 months of establishing them and creates an enforcement mechanism tied to SNAP authorization for retail/wholesale food stores that do not meet the standards.