Illinois Senate Bill 1709 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Failed on January 9 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Secretary of Human Services to seek a waiver from the United States Department of Agriculture to allow the State to include on the face of every LINK card issued to a recipient of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits or cash assistance under the Code a photo of the cardholder. Requires the Department of Human Services to provide the General Assembly with various good faith cost estimates including the estimated cost of replacing every still-valid LINK card with a card that contains on its face a photo of the cardholder and the estimated cost of "phasing in" new photo identification cards issued under the current contract with the current LINK card vendor. Provides that the Department shall suggest a process to the General Assembly that allows the caregiver of a recipient of SNAP benefits or cash assistance under this Code to use the recipient's LINK card on the recipient's behalf. Provides that the General Assembly shall through legislation determine whether it wishes to implement the waiver based on projected cost estimates and other matters.

PUBLIC AID-LINK-SNAP-PHOTO ID

Sen. Chapin Rose [R]

Sen. Dale Righter [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-09	Senate	Session Sine Die
2017-04-07	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2017-03-29	Senate	Postponed - Subcommittee on Special Issues
2017-03-17	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 7, 2017
2017-03-08	Senate	To Subcommittee on Special Issues (HS)
2017-03-07	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Dale A. Righter
2017-02-28	Senate	Assigned to Human Services
2017-02-09	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2017-02-09	Senate	First Reading
2017-02-09	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Chapin Rose

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
305	5	12-4.4a	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1709&GAID=14&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/SB/10000SB1709.htm