Bill Text: MI HB4723 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Human services; food assistance; issuance of bridge card to inmates; prohibit. Amends 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.1 - 400.119b) by adding sec. 10e.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 15-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-18 - Assigned Pa 281'12 With Immediate Effect [HB4723 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB4723-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4723

 

June 9, 2011, Introduced by Reps. Genetski, Bumstead, Forlini, Hooker, Heise, Kowall, Nesbitt, MacMaster, Johnson, Tyler, Haines, Price, Horn, Cotter and Farrington and referred to the Committee on Families, Children, and Seniors.

 

     A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled

 

"The social welfare act,"

 

(MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding section 10c.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 10c. (1) The department shall perform an incarceration

 

match every 3 months to obtain information to assist in determining

 

eligibility based on incarceration status.

 

     (2) The department shall match active recipients age 15 years

 

and over with prisoner population data received from the department

 

of corrections and local jails and the incarceration information

 

obtained via the social security administration's prisoner

 

information system.

 

     (3) If the department determines that an active recipient is

 

incarcerated at the time the incarceration match is performed, the

 

department shall not issue a bridge card to that incarcerated

 

recipient. If a bridge card has already been issued to the

 

incarcerated recipient, the department shall revoke that bridge

 

card.