Bill Text: TX SB1151 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the provision of transitional supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to certain households.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-13 - Left pending in committee [SB1151 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SB1151-Introduced.html

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87R9567 MM-D
By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 1151

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the provision of transitional supplemental nutrition
assistance program benefits to certain households.
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 33.0151 to read as follows:
Sec. 33.0151. TRANSITIONAL BENEFITS ALTERNATIVE. (a) The
executive commissioner shall adopt rules in accordance with 7
U.S.C. Section 2020(s) and 7 C.F.R. Part 273, Subpart H, to provide
transitional supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to
a household:
(1) that ceases to receive cash assistance under the
financial assistance program established under Chapter 31 and
funded under Part A, Title IV, Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
Section 601 et seq.); or
(2) with children that ceases to receive cash
assistance under a state-funded public assistance program.
(b) In adopting rules under this section, the executive
commissioner shall ensure that each household that qualifies for
transitional supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits
receives the benefits for the maximum period allowed under federal
law.
SECTION 2. 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.