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BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

SB 6186: SNAP benefits/unhealthy food

Directing the department of social and health services to apply for a waiver from the United States department of agriculture restricting the use of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits from being used to purchase unhealthy foods such as candy and sweetened beverages.

Summary

  • Directs the Department of Social and Health Services to apply for waiver from the federal U.S. Department of Agriculture to exclude a person from using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to purchase unhealthy foods which includes candy and sweetened beverages.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 16, 2026
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Judy Warnick (R-13)
Introduced
January 16, 2026 in the Senate
Last action
January 16, 2026
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to directing the department of social and health services to apply for a waiver from the United States department of agriculture restricting the use of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits from being used to purchase unhealthy foods such as candy and sweetened beverages;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Judy Warnick (R-13)

2 co-sponsors (0 Democrats, 2 Republicans)

Leonard Christian R-4Mark Schoesler R-9

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. First reading, referred to Human Services.

SB 6186 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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