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
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| By: King of Taylor | H.B. No. 1259 | |
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| 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. | ||
