Bill Text: AZ HB2839 | 2020 | Fifty-fourth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced


Bill Title: TANF; cash assistance amount

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-13 - House read second time [HB2839 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2020-HB2839-Introduced.html

 

 

 

REFERENCE TITLE: TANF; cash assistance amount

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-fourth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2020

 

 

 

HB 2839

 

Introduced by

Representatives Powers Hannley: Andrade, Blanc, Bolding, DeGrazia, Engel, Fernandez, Friese, Gabaldón, Peten, Rodriguez, Terán

 

 

AN ACT

 

Amending section 46‑207.01, Arizona Revised Statutes; appropriating monies; relating to temporary assistance for needy families.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 46-207.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE46-207.01.  Temporary assistance for needy families; amount of cash assistance

Cash assistance paid to any recipient pursuant to section 46‑292, which when added to nonexempt income from all other sources, shall not be less than thirty‑six per cent forty percent of the 1992 2020 federal poverty level adjusted for family size and factors provided in section 46‑207, subsections B and D. END_STATUTE

Sec. 2.  Appropriation; department of economic security; temporary assistance for needy families

The sum of $13,000,000 is appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2020‑2021 to the department of economic security to increase the temporary assistance for needy families cash assistance levels to the national median as determined by the department.

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