Legislative Blog
J.B. Williams, J.D.
Committee on Agriculture
A Blog about One Big Beautiful Bill
A Bit of Background
The following backgrounds help summarize the author's views on both the general topic: Federal and more specifically One Big Beautiful Bill as it relates to that topic.
Brief Summary of Federal
This should be a fairly limited bills area for management the overall structures like highways, military, federal buildings, federal laws, and the like. However it has become the micro manager of all micro managers. They get involved in areas that no federal government should be involved in, and shift more power upward. This has led to each party trying to run over the other party in the eyes of the voters, all the while doing everything possible to maintain their power. They do this by holding onto all of the money, and claiming they know best how it should be spent. But they run debts so badly that no one should be looking to them as an example of anything other than the way to overspend and go further into debt.
Summary of One Big Beautiful Bill
In this subtopic I plan to breakdown the current One Big Beautiful Bill that passed the House and now is in the Senate. This will be subject to change should the bill move forward modified. I'm trying to focus on taxes and health care, but don't want to neglect the massive spending.
Blog Summary
Primary focus on SNAP changes, including work requirements. There are a lot of exemptions to the work requirements though so don't panic.Committee on Agriculture
Published: 2025-06-04
Committee on Agriculture
This portion focuses on the changes to the SNAP.
Nutrition: For SNAP benefits the amount of funds are based upon a man and women between the ages of 20 and 50, a child age 6 to 8, and a child age 9 to 11. The size of the household will adjust the amount as follows:
- 1 person - 30%
- 2 person - 55%
- 3 person - 79%
- 4 person - 100%
- 5 person - 119%
- 6 person - 143%
- 7 person - 158%
- 8 person - 180%
- 9 person - 203%
- 10 person - 224%
- over 10 - 224% plus 21% for each person over 10
There are able bodied work requirements. The following do not meet able-bodied definition (meaning they are exempt from work requirements):
- under 18
- over 65
- medically certified as physically or mentally unfit for employment
- parent with responsibility for a dependent child under the age of 7
- pregnant woman
- currently homeless
- a veteran
- 24 or younger and was in foster care system
The exemptions covers all of the OH NO this or that will be excluded from SNAP benefits, how cruel statements.
Much of the remainder here is modifying existing law with new percentages or numbers. Much of what is done frequently in Congress.
Investment in Rural America
Reference pricing for crops beginning in 2031 are set as follows:
- $6.35 per bushel for wheat
- $4.10 per bushel for corn
- $4.40 per bushel for grain sorghum
- $5.45 per bushel for barley
- $2.65 per bushel for oats
- $16.90 per hundredweight for long grain rice
- $16.90 per hundredweight for medium grain rice
- $10.00 per bushel for soybeans
- $23.75 per hundredweight for oilseeds
- $630.00 per ton for peanuts
- $13.10 per hundredweight for dry peas
- $23.75 per hundredweight for lentils
- $22.65 per hundredweight for small chickpeas
- $25.65 per hundredweight for large chickpeas
- $.42 per pound for seed cotton
There are a multitude of other changes to years, striking 2023 and inserting 2025 or 2031. There are rules modifications regarding base acreage and opt outs.
There are loan rates for the years 2026 through 2031 set lower than the above rates. There are storage rates set for cotton storage.
There are further rules regarding whether sugar needs to be imported and ensuring any rules created do not affect domestic sugar production. There are rules for dairy operations and livestock safety nets. Changes to the poultry rules as well. All of these are modifications being made to existing laws. As well as new funding limits being set.
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