Bill Text: WV HB2132 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Limiting able-bodied adults without dependents receipt of SNAP benefits to three months in a thirty-six month period
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-10 - To House Health and Human Resources [HB2132 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2018-HB2132-Introduced.html
WEST virginia Legislature
2017 regular session
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to the Committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary.
A BILL to amend the Code
of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated
§9-5-25, relating to limiting able-bodied adults
without dependents receipt of SNAP benefits to three months in a thirty-six
month period, except in months in which the recipient is working, or is
participating in a work, educational, or volunteer program for at least twenty
hours per week; the Department of Health and Human Resources shall not request
a waiver to provide SNAP benefits to able-bodied adults without dependents.
Be it enacted by the
Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West
Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section,
designated §9-5-25, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
§9-5-25. Requirements for certain adult recipients of
SNAP benefits.
(a) All able-bodied
adults without dependents, eighteen years of age to fifty years of age, who are
not disabled, pregnant or responsible for the care of a minor child, may
receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ("SNAP") benefits
for only three months in each thirty-six month period. Recipients are exempt from the time limit if
they are employed or are participating and complying with the requirements of a
work, educational or volunteer program for at least twenty hours per week.
(b) Beginning July 1, 2017, the Department of Health and Human
Resources may not request a waiver to provide SNAP benefits to able bodied
adults without dependents who are not meeting the requirements described in
subsection (a).
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to ensure that
all able bodied adults without dependents are working, or in a work program,
for a minimum of twenty hours per week for continued eligibility for SNAP
benefits.
Strike-throughs indicate language
that would be stricken from a heading or the present law, and underscoring
indicates new language that would be added.
