Bill Text: MS HB1142 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: DHS; authorize to use a combination of reporting systems to lower the department's error rate and avoid federal fines.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-03-05 - Died In Committee [HB1142 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2024-HB1142-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2024 Regular Session
To: Public Health and Human Services; Appropriations A
By: Representative Creekmore IV
House Bill 1142
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 43-12-33, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO USE A COMBINATION OF REPORTING SYSTEMS RELATING TO REPORTING OF HOUSEHOLD INCOME TO LOWER THE DEPARTMENT'S ERROR RATE AND AVOID FEDERAL FINES; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 43-12-33, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
43-12-33. The Department of
Human Services * * * may establish or use a * * * combination
of reporting systems under 7 CFR Section 273.12(a) * * *. The
combination, including the extent to which each reporting system is established
and used, shall be set by the Department of Human Services. The department
shall provide a written report no later than September 1 of each year to
the Chairmen of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, the House
Public Health and Human Services Committee and * * * Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee,
and the House and Senate Medicaid Committees, on the * * * rationale, application and effectiveness
of using a combined reporting system, including the effect, if any, on enrollment
in the SNAP program and the effect on the Department of Human Services' error rate,
as calculated by the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department
of Agriculture. The report also shall be provided to the other members of
the Legislature upon request.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
