Mississippi House Bill 1115 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Failed on February 23 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-02-23 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Provide That Recipients Of Medicaid Assistance Who Are Determined To Be Work Eligible Shall Be Required To Engage In An Allowable Work Activity; To Provide That Medicaid Assistance Shall Not Be Given To Any Person Who Has Refused To Accept A Referral Or Offer Of Employment, Training Or Education In Which He Or She Is Able To Engage; To Impose Certain Restrictions On The Department Of Human Services In Administering The Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (snap) In Mississippi; To Direct The Department To Seek Federal Waivers Necessary To Allow The Department To Encourage A Healthy Diet For Recipients Of Snap Benefits By Limiting The Purchase Of Foods And Beverages That Are Low In Nutrients And Foods That Contribute To Diseases Such As Heart Disease And Diabetes; To Direct The Department To Seek Federal Waivers Necessary To Allow The Department To Establish A Pilot Program To Provide Incentives To Persons Who Are Recipients Of Benefits Or Services From The Department To Earn Their High School Equivalency Credential By Taking And Passing Ged Tests; To Direct The Department To Prepare A Video In An Appropriate Medium For Presentation In The Main Or Local Offices In Which Tanf And Snap Benefits Are Provided By The Department That Provides Information About Proper Nutrition, Healthy Eating Habits, And Preventing And Reducing Obesity; To Provide That Applicants For And Recipients Of Tanf And Snap Benefits May View The Video In The Main Or Local Office Of The Department; To Direct The State Department Of Health To Complete The Conversion Of The Food Delivery System For The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants And Children (wic) From A Direct Distribution System To A Retail Delivery System With The Use Of Electronic Benefit Transfer Cards Not Later Than December 31, 2016; To Create The Medicaid And Human Services Fraud Prevention Act; To Define Certain Terms; To Require The Division Of Medicaid And The Department Of Human Services To Jointly Establish A Computerized Income, Asset And Identity Eligibility Verification System In Order To Verify Eligibility, Eliminate The Duplication Of Assistance, And Deter Waste, Fraud And Abuse Within Each Respective Assistance Program Administered By The Division And The Department; To Direct The Division And The Department To Jointly Enter Into A Competitively Bid Contract With A Third-party Vendor For The Purposes Of Developing The Verification System; To Require The Division And The Department, Before Awarding Benefits Or Assistance And On A Quarterly Basis Thereafter, To Identify Information Of Each Respective Applicant And Recipient Of Assistance Against Certain Specified Information Databases, And To Match Identity Information Of Each Respective Applicant And Recipient Of Assistance Against Certain Specified Public Records; To Require Applicants For Benefits Or Assistance From The Division Or The Department To Complete A Computerized Identity Authentication Process That Confirms That The Applicant Owns The Identity Presented In The Application, And To Require The Division Or The Department To Review The Respective Applicant Or Recipient's Identity Ownership Using Certain Procedures; To Provide That If A Discrepancy Results From An Applicant Or Recipient's Identity Information And One Or More Of The Databases Or Information Tools Listed In This Act, The Division Or The Department Will Review The Respective Applicant Or Recipient's Case Using Certain Procedures; To Provide That After Reviewing Changes Or Discrepancies That May Affect Program Eligibility, The Division Or The Department Shall Refer Suspected Cases Of Fraud To The Attorney General's Office For Criminal Prosecution, Recovery Of Improper Payments And Collection Of Civil Penalties; To Provide That After Reviewing Changes Or Discrepancies That May Affect Program Eligibility, The Division Or The Department Will Refer Suspected Cases Of Identity Fraud To The Attorney General's Office For Criminal Prosecution; To Provide That In Cases Of Fraud Substantiated By The Division Or The Department, Upon Conviction, The State Will Review All Legal Options To Remove Enrollees From Other Public Programs And Garnish Wages Or State Income Tax Refunds Until The State Recovers An Equal Amount Of Benefits Or Assistance Fraudulently Claimed; And For Related Purposes.

Medicaid & SNAP programs; make certain revisions regarding.

Rep. Chris Brown [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-23	House	Died In Committee
2016-02-08	House	Referred To Medicaid

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2016/pdf/history/HB/HB1115.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2016/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1115IN.htm