Mississippi House Bill 1064 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: Failed on February 4 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-02-04 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Prohibit The Department Of Human Services From Implementing In The Child Care Payment System Any Payment System That Tracks And Records Time And Attendance Through Bio-metrics, Finger-scanning Of Parents And Designees, Electronic Benefit Transfer (ebt) Cards Or Any Other Method That Would Reduce Services, Deny Access To High Quality Programs, And Unduly Burden The Goals And Purpose Of The Child Care Development Fund (ccdf) As A Work Force Support For Low Income Parents; To Require The Department To Use All Available Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (tanf) Funds To Increase The Number Of Children Served In The Child Care Payment System; To Require The Department To Use All Federal And State Ccdf Funds For Services To Children In The Child Care Payment System, With Certain Exceptions; To Amend Section 43-17-5, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require That Any Unspent Tanf Funds Remaining From The Prior Fiscal Year Be Transferred To The Ccdf; And For Related Purposes.

Child Care Payment System; prohibit DHS from using payment system that records time and attendance through certain methods.

Rep. Rufus Straughter [D]	Rep. Kimberly Campbell [D]	Rep. Linda Coleman [D]	Rep. Mary Coleman [D]
Rep. Tyrone Ellis [D]	Rep. James Evans [D]	Rep. Robert Huddleston [D]	Rep. Sherra Hillman Lane [D]
Rep. Willie Perkins [D]	Rep. Sara Thomas [D]	Rep. Oscar Denton [D]	Rep. John Faulkner [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-04	House	Died In Committee
2014-01-20	House	Referred To Public Health and Human Services;Appropriations

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2014/pdf/history/HB/HB1064.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2014/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1064IN.htm