Soon, we will re-introduce legislation to establish a uniform, statewide time period for the distribution of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
 
Food retailers testified at a hearing of the Senate Majority Policy Committee that it would be better to spread out payments over a fixed period to help provide consistent product availability and effectively meet the needs of customers who receive and use SNAP benefits.
 
This legislation would create a uniform schedule of distribution over a 20-day period rather than the current archaic system distributed on a county-by-county basis and which sometimes ranges from a single day of distribution to distribution over a 10-day period.
 
Please join us in support of this legislation.

Statutes/Laws affected:
Printer's No. 0040: P.L.31, No.21