Bill Text: MI SB1386 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered

Michigan Senate Bill 1386 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Human services; services or financial assistance; assistance program; clarify the family independence program assistance eligibility requirements. Amend sec. 57a of 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.57a).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-12-31 - Assigned Pa 0607'12 With Immediate Effect [SB1386 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-SB1386-Chaptered.html

Act No. 607

Public Acts of 2012

Approved by the Governor

January 8, 2013

Filed with the Secretary of State

January 9, 2013

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 9, 2013

STATE OF MICHIGAN

96TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2012

Introduced by Senator Caswell

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1386

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,” by amending section 57a (MCL 400.57a), as amended by 2011 PA 131.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 57a. (1) The department shall establish and administer the family independence program to provide temporary assistance to families who are making efforts to achieve independence. Family independence program assistance is not an entitlement.

(2) The department shall administer the family independence program to accomplish all of the following:

(a) Provide financial support to eligible families while they pursue self-improvement activities and engage in efforts to become financially independent.

(b) Ensure that recipients who are minor parents live in adult-supervised households in order to reduce long-term dependency on financial assistance.

(d) Ensure that families pursue other sources of support available to them.

(3) The department shall establish income and asset levels for eligibility, types of income and assets to be considered in making eligibility determinations, payment standards, composition of the program group and the family independence program assistance group, program budgeting and accounting methods, and client reporting requirements to meet the following goals:

(a) Efficient, fair, cost-effective administration of the family independence program.

(b) Provision of family independence program assistance to families willing to work toward eventual self-sufficiency.

(4) In accordance with 42 USC 608(a)(7)(A) and 45 CFR 260.31, the department shall not provide family independence program assistance to any program group that includes an adult who has received assistance under any state program funded with temporary assistance for needy families for more than 60 months, whether or not consecutive, after October 1, 1996. This subsection does not apply to a program group that includes an adult who is exempt from participation in the JET program under section 57f(3) or (4)(b), (e), or (f), if that adult also was exempt from participation in the JET program under section 57f(3) or (4)(b), (e), or (f) on the effective date of the 2012 amendatory act that added this subsection. No other provision of this act prohibits the department from terminating family independence program assistance under this subsection.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor