Bill Text: TX HB1259 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the work requirements of the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-13 - Left pending in committee [HB1259 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1259-Introduced.html
  84R7092 EES-D
 
  By: King of Taylor H.B. No. 1259
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the work requirements of the supplemental nutrition
  assistance program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 33, Human Resources Code,
  is amended by adding Section 33.016 to read as follows:
         Sec. 33.016.  EFFECT OF CERTAIN NONCOMPLIANCE WITH WORK
  REQUIREMENTS ON SNAP ELIGIBILITY. As authorized by 7 U.S.C.
  Section 2015(d)(1)(C)(iii)(IV), a person who becomes ineligible
  for supplemental nutrition assistance benefits for the third time
  for refusing or failing without good cause to comply with the
  employment or employment and training program requirements of 7
  U.S.C. Section 2015(d)(1)(A) is permanently ineligible to receive
  those benefits.
         SECTION 2.  Section 33.016, Human Resources Code, as added
  by this Act, applies only to an initial determination or
  recertification of eligibility for the supplemental nutrition
  assistance program under Chapter 33, Human Resources Code, that is
  made on or after the effective date of this Act. A determination or
  recertification made before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date the determination or
  recertification was made, and the former law is continued in effect
  for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  If before implementing any provision of this Act
  a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a
  federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision,
  the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or
  authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the
  waiver or authorization is granted.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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