STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

HOUSE BILL 1329	By:	Pruett

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to poor persons; directing the Department of Human Services to modify the issuance of food stamp benefits; providing deadline for implementation of modification; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 241.4 of Title 56, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
The Department of Human Services shall distribute monthly food stamp benefits to recipients in three separate partial payments each month through the electronic benefit identification program.  The Department shall implement this distribution no later than November 1, 2012.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2011.

53-1-5759	SDR	01/07/11