Bill Text: MI HB4723 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Human services; food assistance; issuance of bridge card to inmates; prohibit. Amends 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.1 - 400.119b) by adding sec. 10e.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 15-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-07-18 - Assigned Pa 281'12 With Immediate Effect [HB4723 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-HB4723-Chaptered.html
Act No. 281
Public Acts of 2012
Approved by the Governor
July 5, 2012
Filed with the Secretary of State
July 5, 2012
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 5, 2012
STATE OF MICHIGAN
96TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
Introduced by Reps. Genetski, Bumstead, Forlini, Hooker, Heise, Kowall, Nesbitt, MacMaster, Johnson, Tyler, Haines, Price, Horn, Cotter and Farrington
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4723
AN ACT to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled “An act to protect the welfare of the people of this state; to provide general assistance, hospitalization, infirmary and medical care to poor or unfortunate persons; to provide for compliance by this state with the social security act; to provide protection, welfare and services to aged persons, dependent children, the blind, and the permanently and totally disabled; to administer programs and services for the prevention and treatment of delinquency, dependency and neglect of children; to create a state department of social services; to prescribe the powers and duties of the department; to provide for the interstate and intercounty transfer of dependents; to create county and district departments of social services; to create within certain county departments, bureaus of social aid and certain divisions and offices thereunder; to prescribe the powers and duties of the departments, bureaus and officers; to provide for appeals in certain cases; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state department with respect to county and district departments; to prescribe certain duties of certain other state departments, officers, and agencies; to make an appropriation; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates,” (MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding section 10e.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 10e. (1) The department shall perform an incarceration match monthly to obtain information to assist in determining eligibility based on incarceration status.
(2) If the department determines that a recipient is incarcerated at the time the incarceration match is performed, the department shall not issue a bridge card to that incarcerated recipient. If a bridge card has already been issued to the incarcerated recipient, the department shall terminate that recipient’s bridge card access.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
