Bill
Number: S.B. 1529
Hobbs
Floor Amendment #1
Reference
to: printed bill
Amendment
drafted by: Leg Council
FLOOR
AMENDMENT EXPLANATION
The Hobbs Amendment contains 3 provisions:
1.
Returns
the TANF cash assistance lifetime limit to 24 months.
2.
Repeals
the SNAP and TANF finger imaging programs.
3.
Expands
eligibility for SNAP benefits to a person who agrees to random drug testing who
has been convicted of a felony offense, after 8-22-96, that included an element
involving the use or possession of a controlled substance and who agrees to
random drug testing if the person meets at least one of the following:
a. Successfully completes
a substance abuse program
b. Is currently accepted
for treatment in a substance abuse treatment program but are on a waiting list,
and the person remains enrolled in the treatment program and enters the
treatment program at the first available opportunity.
c. Is currently accepted
for treatment in and is participating in a substance abuse treatment program.
d. Is determined by a
licensed medical provider to not need substance abuse treatment.
e. If applicable, is in
compliance with all terms of probation.
Page 1,
between lines 1 and 2, insert:
"Section 1. Repeal
Sections 46-217 and 46-218, Arizona Revised Statutes, are repealed.
Sec. 2. Title 46, chapter 2, article 1, Arizona
Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section 46-217, to read:
START_STATUTE46-217. Supplemental
nutrition assistance program; eligibility after conviction; drug testing; rules
a. Notwithstanding
section 13‑3418 and if the person agrees to random drug testing, a person
who is convicted after August 22, 1996 of a felony offense that has as an
element of the offense the use or possession of a controlled substance as
defined in 21 United States code section 802(6) may be eligible for the supplemental
nutrition assistance program if the person meets at least one of the following
criteria:
1. successfully
completes a substance abuse treatment program.
2. Is
currently accepted for treatment in a substance abuse treatment program but is
subject to a waiting list to receive available treatment, and the person
remains enrolled in the treatment program and enters the treatment program at
the first available opportunity.
3. Is
currently accepted for treatment in and is participating in a substance abuse
treatment program.
4. Is
determined by a licensed medical provider to not need substance abuse
treatment.
5. if
applicable, is in compliance with all terms of probation.
B. The
department shall adopt rules related to drug testing pursuant to this section
that include more frequent drug testing for offenses that occurred within
twenty‑four months of the date of application. END_STATUTE
Sec. 3. Section 46-294, Arizona Revised Statutes,
is amended to read:
START_STATUTE46-294. Duration
of assistance
A. A
needy family is ineligible for a cash assistance grant awarded under this
article, except in case of hardship, if any of the following applies:
1. The
needy family includes a head of household or the spouse of the head of
household who has received cash assistance for himself for a total of twelve twenty‑four months.
2. The
needy family includes a cash assistance ineligible parent or the spouse of the
ineligible parent who has received cash assistance on behalf of an eligible
dependent child for a total of twelve
twenty‑four months.
3. The
needy family includes an adult nonparent relative head of household or the
spouse of the adult nonparent relative head of household who has received cash
assistance on behalf of an eligible dependent child for a total of twelve twenty‑four months.
B. The
time limit prescribed in subsection A applies retroactively to cash assistance
received under this article or the Arizona works program on or after October 1,
2002. The time limit applies regardless of:
1. Whether
the twelve twenty‑four months
are consecutive.
2. The
source of funding for the program.
C. The
twelve month twenty‑four‑month
time limit prescribed in this section does not apply to child only cases.
D. In
determining the number of months that assistance has been received, the
department shall disregard any month during which assistance is received by:
1. A
foster parent, an unrelated adult or a nonparent relative, in a child only
case.
2. An
assistance unit during the time in which the assistance unit resides on an
Indian reservation in which the unemployment rate of the adults residing on the
Indian reservation exceeds fifty percent.
3. An
assistance unit if the cash assistance grant is less than the full monthly
amount of cash assistance for which the assistance unit qualifies based on the
date of the application.
4. An
adult recipient who as a minor child was not a head of household or married to
a head of household.
E. Except
in case of hardship, an assistance unit in which any adult or minor parent of a
dependent child who is a head of household or married to a head of household
has received sixty months of assistance funded in whole or in part by the
temporary assistance for needy families block grant in this or any other state
or United States territory or from a tribal temporary assistance for needy
families program shall not be eligible to receive under any circumstances more
than sixty months of such assistance.
F. Consistent with the adopted state plan, cash assistance shall terminate
on July 1, 2016 Beginning September 1, 2017, cash
assistance shall terminate for any family, without regard to whether the
family meets the financial criteria established for a needy family, that has
received twelve twenty‑four or
more months of cash assistance as of that date."END_STATUTE
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conform
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