Author: Jennifer Mullens
Last saved by: Barbara Rogers
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 53rd Legislature (2012)

SENATE BILL 1813	By:	Stanislawski

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; establishing certain pilot program; specifying time period of certain pilot program; requiring certain cards to have a photograph; providing for the creation and distribution of certain card; requiring certain information to be placed on the back of specified cards; providing for certain requirements by retail establishments; authorizing the Department of Human Services to employ certain persons; prohibiting certain limitation; requiring certain report; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 243.1 of Title 56, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A.  The Department of Human Services shall develop and implement a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program identification pilot program pursuant to the provisions of this section.  The pilot program shall begin on or before January 1, 2013, and continue through December 31, 2014.
B.  All benefit cards distributed to recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by the Department for the duration of the pilot program shall have imprinted on the card a photograph of the recipient.
C.  In the event that another person is authorized to use the card on behalf of the recipient, the Department shall create and distribute a card bearing the name of the authorized user and shall have imprinted on the card a photograph of the authorized user.  The card shall be clearly marked as to indicate that the person on the card is only an authorized user of the card on behalf of a recipient.
D.  The Department shall place a phone number on the back of the cards that retail establishments can call to report to the Department the suspected use of the card by a person other than the recipient or an authorized user.
E.  If the photograph of the recipient or authorized user does not match the person presenting the card, a retail establishment shall:
1.  Refuse to accept the card;
2.  Record the name and any other identifying information listed on the card; and
3.  Call the phone number on the back of the card within twenty-four (24) hours to report the suspected use of the card by a person other than the recipient or an authorized user and provide the name and any other identifying information listed on the card.
F.  For the duration of the pilot program, the Department of Human Services shall employ one fraud investigator for every One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000.00) expended in state and federal funds on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program if the return on investment, including cost avoidance, is greater than the total direct and indirect cost of the employee.  Fraud investigators employed pursuant to this section shall not count toward any full-time equivalent limitations on the Department.
G.  The Department shall evaluate and report findings on the success of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program identification pilot program in preventing or eliminating fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by January 31, 2015.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2012.

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