Bill Text: TX HB620 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to electronic benefits transfer cards used for recipients of benefits under certain assistance programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-14 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB620 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB620-Comm_Sub.html
| 84R21349 ADM-D | |||
| By: Bonnen of Galveston, Schaefer, et al. | H.B. No. 620 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 620: | |||
| By: Raymond | C.S.H.B. No. 620 | ||
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| relating to electronic benefits transfer cards used for recipients | ||
| of benefits under certain assistance programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.0911 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.0911. PHOTOGRAPH ON CERTAIN ELECTRONIC BENEFITS | ||
| TRANSFER CARDS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Financial assistance program" means the | ||
| financial assistance program established under Chapter 31, Human | ||
| Resources Code. | ||
| (2) "Recipient" means a person who receives benefits | ||
| under the financial assistance program or the supplemental | ||
| nutrition assistance program. | ||
| (3) "Supplemental nutrition assistance program" has | ||
| the meaning assigned by Section 33.0005, Human Resources Code. | ||
| (b) The commission shall ensure that each electronic | ||
| benefits transfer card used by a recipient, or other person | ||
| authorized on the recipient's account, for purposes of receiving | ||
| benefits under the financial assistance program or the supplemental | ||
| nutrition assistance program displays the name and photograph of | ||
| the recipient or other authorized person, as appropriate. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2016, the Health and | ||
| Human Services Commission shall ensure that electronic benefits | ||
| transfer cards used on or after that date to deliver benefits to | ||
| recipients under the financial assistance program under Chapter 31, | ||
| Human Resources Code, and the supplemental nutrition assistance | ||
| program under Chapter 33, Human Resources Code, conform to Section | ||
| 531.0911, Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| 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. | ||
