Bill Text: TX HB4658 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to procedures for establishing and recertifying a person's eligibility for the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Human Services [HB4658 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4658-Introduced.html
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By: Anchía | H.B. No. 4658 |
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relating to procedures for establishing and recertifying a person's | ||
eligibility for the supplemental nutrition assistance program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 33.015, Human Resources | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.015. INITIAL ESTABLISHMENT AND RECERTIFICATION OF | ||
ELIGIBILITY BY TELEPHONE [ |
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SECTION 2. Sections 33.015(a) and (d), Human Resources | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) In administering the supplemental nutrition assistance | ||
program, the commission shall, except as provided by [ |
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eligibility requirements, including any initial interview, and | ||
with subsequent periodic eligibility recertification requirements | ||
by telephone instead of through a personal appearance at commission | ||
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(d) Subsection (a) does not prevent a [ |
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appear at commission offices to establish initial eligibility or to | ||
comply with periodic eligibility recertification requirements. | ||
SECTION 3. Sections 33.015(b), (c), and (e), Human | ||
Resources Code, are repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 33.015, Human Resources Code, as amended | ||
by this Act, applies only to an initial determination or | ||
recertification of eligibility for the supplemental nutrition | ||
assistance program under Chapter 33, Human Resources Code, that is | ||
made on or after the effective date of this Act. A determination or | ||
recertification made before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the determination or | ||
recertification was made, and the former law is continued in effect | ||
for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. 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 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |