{"id":39124,"date":"2025-05-28T14:52:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=39124"},"modified":"2025-05-28T14:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:52:03","slug":"elimination-of-snap-eligibility-sunset-date-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=39124","title":{"rendered":"Elimination of SNAP eligibility sunset date approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill relating to eligibility and work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was given final approval May 28.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37093\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37093\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=37093\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenQuick_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communication&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Dan Quick, District 35. Nebraska Legislature - 2025 Incoming Senators. November 20, 2024. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1729274645&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2019, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;177&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Mark Wilkins Lab&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenQuick_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dan Quick&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dan Quick&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenQuick_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37093\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenQuick_inline.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Dan Quick\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dan Quick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Income eligibility guidelines for SNAP were expanded in 2021 from 130% of the federal poverty level to 165%. That expansion was scheduled to expire Oct. 1. LB192, sponsored by Grand Island Sen. Dan Quick, eliminates the sunset date and retains the current income eligibility level.<\/p>\n<p>The measure also includes provisions of LB656, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Bob Andersen, which prohibits the state Department of Health and Human Services from seeking, applying or renewing a work requirement waiver for SNAP benefits unless expressly required to do so by federal law.<\/p>\n<p>DHHS also could require all eligible SNAP recipients to participate in the employment and training program at the department\u2019s discretion.<\/p>\n<p>LB192 passed on a 41-8 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill relating to eligibility and work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was given final approval May 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[181],"class_list":["post-39124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-dan-quick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39126,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39124\/revisions\/39126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}