More than 90,000 Alabamians would fall short of food stamp work requirements proposed under the Farm Bill reauthorization currently before Congress, according to an analysis released Wednesday.

The House of Representatives is currently considering the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, which includes the Farm Bill and its $17 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps. The bill increases work requirements for SNAP recipients, stipulating that all able-bodied adults between ages 18 and 59 who aren't pregnant or don't have children ages 6 or younger to work a minimum of 20 hours a week or be in job training. The work requirement would grow to 25 hours by 2026.

SNAP recipients who fail to meet the 20-hour-per-week work requirement could lose benefits after one month.

Currently, most food stamp recipients ages 18-49 who aren't disabled or raising minor children are required to work a minimum of 20 hours a week.

Work requirements would dramatically impact food stamp rolls

The proposed changes could dramatically impact many current SNAP recipients.

An analysis by the Urban Institutes estimates some 5.2 million SNAP recipients nationally would fall short of meeting the revised work requirements on an average month.

"Over the entire year, 9.8 million people would fail to meet the requirements in at least one month, but over half of them would work enough in at least one other month to comply," the analysis noted.

Alabama has 783,000 SNAP recipients, 153,000 of whom would be subject to the new work requirements. According to the Urban Institute analysis, 94,000 people - roughly 61 percent of those potentially subject to work requirements- are currently not meeting that threshold.

The bill has been approved by the House Committee on Agriculture and could go to a vote as soon as Friday. If approved by Congress, the new work requirements would go into effect in 2021.