Agency: USDA Food and Nutrition Service
Action: Comments requested by June 16, 2025
Why it matters: USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service is proposing to rescind a final rule issued on December 14, 2023, about regulatory language that removed “visual observation” as an example of when State agencies might collect race and ethnicity data when SNAP participants do not voluntarily provide race and ethnicity information on the application form. This proposed rule is expected to have little impact on States and local governments.