• Closing the Meal Gap Act – H.R. 3037(Adams)/S. 1336 (Gillibrand): Improve SNAP benefit adequacy to help SNAP participants meet their household’s dietary, cultural, and other food needs by permanently adopting the Low-Cost Food Plan to replace the inadequate Thrifty Food Plan.
• Increase accessibility to SNAP for critical populations:
  • Improve Access to Nutrition Act – H.R. 1510 (Lee)/ S. 2435 (Welch): Repeal the three-month time limit on SNAP for certain working-age adults who struggle with deep-set barriers to finding consistent employment. | FRAC Brief
  • EATS Act – H.R. 3183 (Gomez)/S. 1488(Gillibrand): End the unjust rule preventing SNAP access for low-income college students. | Rep. Gomez Factsheet
  • Restore Act–H.R. 3479 (Cohen)/S. 1753 (Booker) : Repeals the lifetime federal ban on individuals with felony drug convictions from receiving SNAP | FRAC Factsheet
  • LIFT the BAR Act – H.R. 4170 (Jayapal)/S. 2038 (Hirono): Reverse the racially discriminatory policy of prohibiting SNAP to immigrants by repealing the five-year bar for SNAP, TANF, and Medicaid.
• Hot Foods Act – H.R. 3519 (Meng)/ S. 2258 (Bennet): Expand the accessibility of using SNAP to purchase hot food and meals. This will increase accessibility to nutritious meals for people who have limited food preparation space or physical ability. 
• Farmers Feeding America Act- H.R. 6203 (Salinas, Panetta)/ S. 2713 (Casey): Roughly double the funding for TEFAP food purchases to support food banks.

Thank you to our Food Banks that lifted up these anti-hunger priorities in Farm Bill Listening Sessions:

Food Banks Provide Comments at Tulare Farm Bill Listening Session, 2/14/23

Snapshots from the California Farm Bill Listening Session, July 6, 2022

• CAFB Farm Bill overview webinar (9/14/22):
  • Video recording
  • Slide presentation
• Food Research and Action Center resources:
  • Webinar: Farm Bill 101: Demystifying the Largest Piece of Legislation That Directly Affects SNAP
  • FRAC, Feeding America, & Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Webinar Series:
    • Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
  • FRAC Chats:
    • Farm Bill Urban Rural Alliance
    • Protect and Strengthen SNAP Agenda: Part 1, Part 2
  • FRAC 2023 Farm Bill priorities
• Feeding America Farm Bill page
• California Department of Food And Agriculture 2023 Farm Bill priorities 

• Use the California Farm Bill Social Media Toolkit to educate your audience and urge your Member Of Congress (MOC) to support strengthening food and nutrition assistance programs in the Farm Bill.
• Email your member of congress to co-sponsor key marker bills.
  • Step 1: Check to see if your member of Congress is already a cosponsor by looking up the bill on Congress.gov. If they’re already a co-sponsor, thank them! If they’re not a co-sponsor, then;
  • Step 2: Send your member of congress an email asking them to become a co-sponsor. For example, use this email template to send a personalized email to your members thanking them for bills they have cosponsored and asking them to co-sponsor priority SNAP bills they have yet to sign on to. Use this email template to ask them to co-sponsor a priority TEFAP bill.
• Organizational endorsements for LIFT the BAR Act are still ongoing. You can check if your organization has already signed on, and if they haven’t, you can sign the letter here. 
• Ask your member of congress to visit your food bank or food program so they can learn about hunger and the communities you serve.