Bill Text: MI SB0339 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Human services; services or financial assistance; past and present family independence program recipients to pay back assistance with lottery winnings; require. Amends 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.1 - 400.119b) by adding sec. 10h.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-01 - Referred To Committee On Families, Seniors And Human Services [SB0339 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-SB0339-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 339

 

 

May 1, 2013, Introduced by Senators MOOLENAAR, MARLEAU, EMMONS, BOOHER, JONES, COLBECK, GREEN, BRANDENBURG, MEEKHOF, HUNE, ROBERTSON, KOWALL and ROCCA and referred to the Committee on Families, Seniors and Human Services.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled

 

"The social welfare act,"

 

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

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 10h. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section,

 

any person who is receiving or has, in the previous 10 years,

 

received assistance under this act and who wins a lottery prize of

 

$600.00 or more shall reimburse the department from the lottery

 

winnings for all the assistance benefits paid to that person or his

 

or her family group during the previous 10 years.

 

     (2) The amount paid to the department shall not be more than

 

50% of the amount of the lottery prize. The department director

 

shall enter into an agreement with the lottery commissioner for

 

crediting the lottery prizes against assistance received under this

 

act.

 

     (3) The department shall not recover payments made to an

 

assistance recipient for assistance that was reimbursed by child

 

support collections.

 

     (4) This section does not prohibit recovery under any other

 

provision of this act.