MODERN WIC Act of 2025

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HR1464 · U.S. Congress · In Committee

Introduced 2025-02-21. Latest action: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

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Summary (plain-language)

More Options to Develop and Enhance Remote Nutrition in WIC Act of 2025 or the MODERN WIC Act of 2025 This bill permanently allows individuals to remotely certify their eligibility for, and receive benefits through, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Specifically, the bill requires that a state agency allow an individual seeking a WIC certification, recertification, or a nutritional risk evaluation to do so by phone or through video teleconference, in addition to the in-person option. A state agency has 90 days to collect data for a nutritional risk evaluation for a remotely certified individual. Further, a state agency may consider an applicant who meets the income eligibility standards to be temporarily eligible on an interim basis to participate in the program and may certify the individual for immediate participation without waiting for a nutritional risk evaluation. The bill also allows states to provide benefits on WIC electronic benefit transfer cards through mail or remote issuance instead of requiring participants to pick up or reload benefits in person at a WIC office. Further, the Department of Agriculture must report to Congress about the use of remote technologies and other digital tools in the WIC program. Currently, individuals are generally required to be physically present to certify their WIC eligibility and receive benefits, with exceptions. The Food and Nutrition Service has temporarily waived these requirements and allowed remote certification and benefits using authorities that were provided by laws that were enacted to address COVID-19.

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Action History

Date	Action
2025-02-21	Introduced in House
2025-02-21	Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Lobbying on this bill

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Honesty note: each filer below disclosed lobbying on this bill — that much the filing tells us. But the dollar figure is their total lobbying spend for the whole quarter across all their issues, not the amount spent on this bill, and the filing never says whether they supported or opposed it.

Registrant (lobbying firm)	Client	Period	Reported quarterly amount	Extraction
NATIONAL ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE SISTERS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD	CONFERENCE OF PROVINCIALS OF NORTH AMERICA	Q1 2026	$20,000	Explicit
FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER	FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER	Q1 2026	$28,721	Probable
FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER	FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER	Q1 2026	$28,721	Probable
NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ACTION FUND	NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ACTION FUND	Q1 2026	$85,000	Explicit
NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE	NETWORK	Q1 2026	not reported	Explicit
NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE	NETWORK	Q1 2026	not reported	Explicit
HOUSTON FOOD BANK	HOUSTON FOOD BANK	Q1 2026	not reported	Probable
VALENTINE STRATEGIES	NATIONAL WIC ASSOCIATION	Q1 2026	$20,000	Probable
THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION - A FLORIDA NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION	NEMOURS FOUNDATION - A FLORIDA NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION	Q1 2026	$150,000	Explicit

Source: Senate LDA filings.