Bill Text: MI HB4829 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Human services: services or financial assistance; family independence program benefits; extend. Amends secs. 57p & 57r of 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.57p & 400.57r).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-12 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 05/11/2021 [HB4829 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HB4829-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 4829
A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled
"The social welfare act,"
by amending sections 57p and 57r (MCL 400.57p and 400.57r), as amended by 2011 PA 131.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 57p. (1) Any month in which a recipient has been exempted from the JET PATH program under section 57f(3) or (4)(b) shall not be counted toward the cumulative total of 48 60 months in a lifetime for family independence program assistance. Any month in which a recipient has been exempted from the JET PATH program under section 57f(4)(e) or (f) may, in the department's discretion, be excluded from the count toward the cumulative total of 48 60 months in a lifetime for family independence program assistance.
(2) In determining the number of months for which a recipient who is a parent or pregnant has received family independence program assistance, the department shall disregard any month for which family independence program assistance was provided with respect to the recipient and during which the recipient was a minor child and was not the head of a household or married to the head of a household.
Sec. 57r. (1) Beginning October 1, 2007, family independence program assistance shall be paid to an individual for not longer than a cumulative total of 48 60 months during that individual's lifetime.
(2) Except for the limitation provided in 42 USC 608(a)(7)(C)(ii), the department may exempt a recipient from the application of subsection (1) by reason of hardship or if the program group includes an individual who has been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty.
(3) As used in this section, "battered or subjected to extreme cruelty" means an individual has been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty if the recipient has been subjected to 1 or more of the following:
(a) A physical act that resulted in, or threatened to result in, physical injury to the individual.
(b) Sexual abuse.
(c) Sexual activity involving a dependent child.
(d) Being forced as the caretaker relative of a dependent child to engage in a nonconsensual sexual act or activity.
(e) A threat of, or attempt at, physical or sexual abuse.
(f) Mental abuse.
(g) Neglect or deprivation of medical care.
