West Virginia House Bill 4297 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 24 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-01-24 - To House Health and Human Resources
Pending: House Health & Human Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to make benefits programs run more effectively by removing barriers to participation, increasing the power of the Investigations and Fraud Management Division to investigate welfare fraud, require DHHR to request the ability to prohibit the use of benefits for certain unhealthy foods and incentivize the use of benefits for certain healthy foods, and create state criminal penalties for knowingly misusing benefits in order to permit state prosecution for certain violators rather than relying solely on federal prosecution.

Relating to the operation and oversight of certain benefit programs

Del. Don Perdue [D]

Del. John Ellem [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-24	House	To House Health and Human Resources
2014-01-24	House	Introduced in House
2014-01-24	House	To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2014-01-24	House	Filed for introduction

SB395 (Same As) 2014-04-14 - Chapter 188, Acts, Regular Session, 2014

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
61	4	9	New Code	See Bill Text
9	5	22	New Code	See Bill Text
9	5	8b	New Code	See Bill Text
9	9	6	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4297&year=2014&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4297%20intr.htm&yr=2014&sesstype=RS&i=4297