How the OBBBA / HR1 (P.L. 119-21) work-requirement expansion rolled out, state by state, July 2025 -> December 2026. 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.
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.
Chip flags: P = partial / area-waiver (only part of the state enforces) · ~ = phased in renewal-by-renewal · X = waiver/terminations affected by court action. ‹ / › = event sits just before/after the window.
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)
The first month that counts toward a person's 3-month allowance. All 53 jurisdictions appear here. (November 2025 was prorated by the shutdown, so for most states the first countable month is December 2025.)
First terminations / exhaustion
When the first cohort actually loses SNAP - first countable month + 3 countable months. The human-impact date.
Litigation / court actions
Court actions that moved the dates - markers, not a per-state row.
36-month clock boundaries (in-window)
Only states whose 36-month window opens, closes, or resets inside Jul 2025-Dec 2026 (when a window resets, everyone in that state gets a fresh 3 months).
Reading the 36-month clock lane. States choose how to measure the 36 months: most use a fixed statewide clock (one window that resets the whole state at once); several use an individual per-person clock (CT, KY, MS, NH, OK, TX), and a few states' methodology isn't published (DE, SC) or their window is unconfirmed (HI, NV). This lane shows only the windows that open, close, or reset inside the timeline: opens - Kansas (Oct 2025), Vermont (Nov 2025), California & Minnesota (Jan 2026), Louisiana (Apr 2026), DC (Jun 2026); closes/resets - New Mexico (May), Colorado/Maryland/Missouri (Jun), Rhode Island (Aug), Maine/New York/Nevada (Sep), Georgia/Iowa/South Dakota (Nov), Illinois/Massachusetts/Washington (Dec 2026). Louisiana closes Mar 31 2026 and reopens Apr 1 - a statewide reset.
The litigation, in one line. USDA tried to end ~18 statewide "insufficient jobs" waivers ~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 USDA reinstated them Feb 26 2026 (uniform protective endpoint Apr 30 2026). California's statewide waiver was terminated administratively Nov 1 2025 but CA defers enforcement to Jun 1 2026 regardless. There was no separate AG-coalition or Tribal ABAWD suit and no distinct "April 30" ruling.
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. All sources are public primary sources. Enforcement & first-termination lanes cover all 50 states + DC + Guam + USVI. First-termination months are projections except where a state has confirmed them (shown in each chip's detail).