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.