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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)
SENATE BILL 1253 By: Bergstrom
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP); amending 56 O.S. 2021,
Section 241.3, which relates to limitation of
benefits; modifying applicability of work
requirement; modifying certain prohibition on waiver
requests; updating statutory language; and declaring
an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 56 O.S. 2021, Section 241.3, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 241.3. A. Except as otherwise provided by law or
waiver, all able-bodied recipients eighteen (18) years of age to
fifty (50) years of age, who are not disabled or raising minor
children, An individual who does not qualify for an exception
provided by 7 U.S.C., Section 2015(o)(3) may receive food stamps
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for only
three (3) months in each thirty-six-month period except in months in
which such recipients are employed for at least twenty (20) or more
hours per week individual meets the work requirement established by
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7 U.S.C., Section 2015(o)(2). The Department of Human Services
shall enforce the provisions of this section and any approved
waivers or other provisions pursuant to law in effect for this state
as of the effective date of this act in designated areas and
populations 7 U.S.C., Section 2015(o).
B. 1. A family household applying for food stamps SNAP
benefits after the fifteenth (15th) day of each month shall be
eligible to receive the total amount of their the household’s
initial allotment and their its regular first allotment.
2. A household allotment of food stamps SNAP benefits may be
reduced by up to twenty-five percent (25%) if a family the household
is sanctioned in another program established pursuant to the
Statewide Temporary Assistance Responsibility System.
3. An individual in a treatment center shall designate the
treatment center as the recipient of such individual’s food stamp
SNAP benefit allotment.
4. Operating procedures for the food stamp programs SNAP in
local offices may vary to reflect local differences.
5. The Department is authorized to use the amount of a
household food stamp SNAP benefit allotment to subsidize a job under
a work supplementation or support program.
C. Beginning October 1, 2013, the The Department of Human
Services shall not request a waiver to provide Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program services to able-bodied adults without
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dependents of the SNAP work requirement under 7 U.S.C., Section
2015(o)(4).
SECTION 2. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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