Bill Text: TX HB3463 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to information provided to recipients of certain assistance programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-07 - Postponed [HB3463 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3463-Introduced.html
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By: Bohac | H.B. No. 3463 |
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relating to information provided to recipients of certain | ||
assistance programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.192 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.192. PROVISION OF INFORMATION UPON | ||
RECERTIFICATION. (a) This section applies to: | ||
(1) the financial assistance program under Chapter 31, | ||
Human Resources Code; | ||
(2) the medical assistance program under Chapter 32, | ||
Human Resources Code; and | ||
(3) the supplemental nutrition assistance program | ||
under Chapter 33, Human Resources Code. | ||
(b) At the time a person is recertified as eligible to | ||
receive benefits or assistance under a program listed in Subsection | ||
(a), the commission shall provide information regarding the total | ||
amount of benefits or assistance received by the person under all of | ||
the programs during the preceding 12 months. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 531.192, Government Code, as added by | ||
this Act, applies to a person for whom a recertification of | ||
eligibility for benefits or assistance under Chapter 31, 32, or 33, | ||
Human Resources Code, is made on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 3. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |