How the OBBBA / HR1 (P.L. 119-21) work-requirement expansion rolled out, state by state, July 2025 -> June 2027. One chip per state per lane; click any chip for full detail + public sources. Grounded in 7 CFR 273.24, FNS OBBBA memos, state agency directives, and court records via /snap-oracle; every record adversarially re-verified. General information, not legal advice.
Click any state chip or bar for that state's dated timeline and sources.
The one rule: an ABAWD can receive SNAP for only 3 countable months in a 36-month period without meeting an 80-hours/month work requirement (or an exemption/waiver). OBBBA made far more people ABAWDs (age -> 64; veteran/homeless/former-foster exemptions removed; young-child exemption -> under 14) and narrowed the waivers states can use. The lanes below trace, per state: waiver ends -> prep -> clock starts -> people lose benefits.
FederalWaiver endsEnforcement beginsFirst terminations: cliff (top) / rolling (bottom)Litigation↻ 36-month period restarts: a hollow bar across the restart month and the two after it: under the cliff chips for a cliff state, on the state's own row for a rolling state (a policy date, not a loss)States with no published instrument for finding already-enrolled people who became newly subject get a shape called from the observed caseload instead of from a state document - that lighter-confidence call is labeled "inferred from the caseload" in the state's popup.
Federal milestones
National rule dates that apply to every state - the baseline the states react to.
Waiver ends
The one date a state's ABAWD waiver actually ended (only states that had one). Attempted-but-court-blocked early terminations are NOT shown here.
Enforcement begins (first countable month for people newly subject under the 2025 law)
The first month that counts toward the 3-month allowance for people newly subject to the time limit under the 2025 federal law - ages 55-64, parents of children 14-17, veterans, people experiencing homelessness, and former foster youth. All 51 jurisdictions appear here. (An FNS memo of Nov 13, 2025 told every state not to count November 2025 and to resume counting in December 2025, which is the first countable month for 34 of the 51 jurisdictions here.)
First terminations - two rows in one lane
Top half (deep red): the month a whole pre-identified group loses SNAP together - everyone started counting on the same day and reached the 3-month limit on the same day (a cliff). Bottom half (rose, hatched): states where people are identified one at a time as they come up for recertification, so closures arrive month by month; the state's chip repeats across every month of that rolling span. A state can appear in both halves (a cliff for the already-identified group, then a rolling tail). Hollow bars marked ↻ each cover the month a state's fixed 36-month clock restarts and the two months after it, when no one can yet have used three new months. A cliff state's bar sits in the top half, in the same cells as the cliff chips and underneath them; any other state's sits on its own row in the bottom half. A restart is a policy date, not a loss; where a rose bar follows it, renewal-by-renewal closures continue. Two groups in one state: Oregon, Wisconsin and New Mexico each have two groups with their own months; hover over any of their marks to see which group it belongs to. A notch on Oregon's and Wisconsin's bars marks the month the second group's first losses fall. Click any chip for the state's panel. Click any chip or bar to open that state's panel with a dated timeline and source links.
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Court actions that moved the dates - markers, not a per-state row.
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Reading the 36-month restarts. States choose how to measure the 36 months: most use a fixed statewide clock (one period for everyone, which restarts the whole state at once); fourteen use an individual per-person clock (AL, CT, DE, HI, KY, MS, ND, NE, NH, OH, OK, TX, UT, VA — Delaware's rule says only "any 36-month period"), New Jersey's regulation and FAQ disagree on which kind it runs, and Nevada's window dates are unpublished. When a fixed clock restarts, everyone's count of used months goes back to zero. The chart draws a restart as a hollow ↻ bar in the first-terminations lane, across the restart month and the two after it (under the cliff chips for a cliff state, on the state's own row for a rolling state), only where the state's own document gives the restart date or dates it can be counted from. 22 restarts fall inside this timeline: Kansas (Oct 2025); Vermont (Nov 2025); California & Minnesota (Jan 2026); Louisiana (Apr 2026); District of Columbia & New Mexico (Jun 2026); Colorado, Maryland, Missouri* & Montana* (Jul 2026); Rhode Island (Sep 2026); Maine & New York (Oct 2026); Georgia*, Iowa & South Dakota* (Dec 2026); Illinois*, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania* & Washington (Jan 2027); New Jersey* (Feb 2027). A * marks a state whose document does not give the restart date itself (most give the end of the current period), so the month is our count. Hover over a bar for the state's own words; click it for the state's panel and the link.
The litigation, in one line. USDA tried to end ~18 "insufficient jobs" waivers on Nov 2 2025. A single case - Rhode Island State Council of Churches v. Rollins (D.R.I.) - blocked that nationwide on Oct 31, so the court-affected waivers ran to their original expirations (IL/NJ/NV/WA = Jan 31 2026; NY = Feb 28 2026) and FNS confirmed each state's original date on Feb 26 2026. California's statewide waiver was court-preserved to its original Jan 31 2026 expiration (Appendix A), with enforcement deferred to Jun 1 2026 regardless. There was no separate AG-coalition or Tribal ABAWD suit and no distinct "April 30" ruling. The case ended by joint stipulated dismissal Mar 2 2026 (no ruling on the merits).
Built from the snap-oracle corpus + live primary-source verification (FNS waiver letters, state SNAP manuals/directives, court records), with every per-state record adversarially re-verified on 2026-06-27 and again on 2026-08-26 (52-jurisdiction sweep + adjudication; Guam excluded 2026-09-03, the Virgin Islands 2026-09-20). All sources are public primary sources. Enforcement & first-termination lanes cover all 50 states + DC. First-termination months are projections except where a state has confirmed them (shown in each chip's detail).