SNAP benefits; purchases; waiver

Plain English Breakdown

The official summary text provided in the source material describes a completely different bill regarding funding for the Douglas port of entry. The fact-checking was performed using only the 'Official bill text excerpt' which contains the SNAP provisions.

HB2107: Requesting Changes to SNAP Benefit Rules

This bill requires the state director to ask federal officials for permission to stop buying fast food and start allowing vitamin purchases with SNAP benefits.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the Department of Economic Security director to request a waiver from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Asks the waiver to exclude fast food items from eligible SNAP purchases.
• Asks the waiver to include vitamins as an item that can be bought with SNAP benefits.
• Directs the state to ban fast food and allow vitamin sales only if the federal government grants the request.
• Orders the director to ask for this same waiver every year until it is approved.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in Arizona
• The Director of the Department of Economic Security

Terms To Know

Waiver

Official permission from a higher authority to change or ignore an existing rule.

Fast Food

Mass-produced food designed for commercial resale with a strong priority placed on speed of service.

Limits and Unknowns

• The changes only happen if the U.S. Department of Agriculture agrees to grant the waiver.
• If the waiver is denied, no new rules about fast food or vitamins go into effect immediately, but requests must continue annually.
• The bill does not specify when federal approval might be granted.

Official Summary Text

HB2107 - 572R - House Bill Summary

ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

57th
Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

Majority Research Staff

HB
2107
: SNAP benefits; purchases; waiver

S/E:
appropriation; Douglas port of entry

Sponsor:
Representative Martinez, LD 16

Committee
on Rural Economic Development

Summary of the Strike-Everything
Amendment to HB 2107

Overview

Appropriates
$30,723,600 from the state General Fund (GF) in Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 to the
State Treasurer to distribute to the City of Douglas for the State match of the
Douglas port of entry.

History

The primary duties of the State Treasurer are to receive and
hold all monies belonging to Arizona that are not required to be kept by some
other person, to keep an account of all monies received and disbursed and to
keep separate accounts of the funds and appropriations of monies. Other key
functions include paying warrants of the Arizona Department of Administration,
supporting the financial literacy of Arizonans and administering the AZ529
plan, Arizona's education savings plan. Statute designates the Treasurer to
invest state monies and administer local government investment pools (A.R.S. ��

41-172
,
35-313
,
35-326
).

Provisions

1.

Appropriates
$30,723,600 from the state GF in FY 2027 to the State Treasurer to distribute
to the City of Douglas for the State match of the Douglas port of entry. (Sec.
1)

2.

Specifies
the appropriated monies may be spent only to the extent that the General
Services Administration provides an award of $678,000,000 for the Douglas port
of entry. (Sec. 1)

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Current Bill Text

HB2107 - 572R - I Ver

PREFILED��� DEC 29 2025

REFERENCE TITLE:
SNAP benefits; purchases; waiver

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2107

Introduced by

Representatives
Martinez: Biasiucci, Carbone, Carter N, Fink, Gress, Heap, Hendrix, Keshel,
Lopez

AN
ACT

amending title 46, chapter 2, article 2,
arizona revised statutes, by adding section 46-232; relating to the
supplemental nutrition assistance program.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 46, chapter 2, article 2,
Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 46-232, to read:

START_STATUTE
46-232.

Use of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits;
prohibited purchases; waiver; definition

A. The director of the department of
economic security shall request a waiver from the United States department of
agriculture to do both of the following:

1. Exclude fast food from the
supplemental nutrition assistance program.

2. Include vitamins in the
supplemental nutrition assistance program.

B. If the waiver is granted as
prescribed in subsection A of this section, the director shall prohibit
enrollees in the supplemental nutrition assistance program from using program
benefits to purchase fast food and allow enrollees to use program benefits to
purchase vitamins.� If the waiver is not granted, the director shall request a
waiver annually until the waiver is granted.

C. For the purposes of this section,
"Fast Food" means a type of mass-produced food that is designed
for commercial resale with a strong priority placed on speed of service.
END_STATUTE