Bill Text: TX SB191 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits accounts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-14 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB191 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB191-Comm_Sub.html
By: Birdwell, Nelson, Schwertner | S.B. No. 191 | |
(In the Senate - Filed January 18, 2013; January 29, 2013, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human | ||
Services; May 6, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 3; | ||
May 6, 2013, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 191 | By: Deuell |
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relating to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits | ||
accounts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 31.0355, Human Resources | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) If a recipient of financial assistance who receives the | ||
assistance by electronic benefits transfer to an account is | ||
authorized to make a cash withdrawal from the account through a | ||
provider of the goods or services described by Subsection (a), the | ||
recipient may make the cash withdrawal only: | ||
(1) at the customer service department of the provider | ||
and not at the provider's point-of-sale terminal; and | ||
(2) after the provider verifies the recipient's | ||
identity in accordance with Section 31.0356, if applicable. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 31, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Sections 31.0356 and 31.0357 to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 31.0356. PHOTO IDENTIFICATION FOR CERTAIN CASH | ||
WITHDRAWALS. (a) In this section, "photo identification" means a | ||
card or other document that: | ||
(1) is issued by a governmental entity to identify an | ||
individual; and | ||
(2) displays a photograph of the individual identified | ||
on the card or other document. | ||
(b) A recipient of financial assistance who receives the | ||
assistance by electronic benefits transfer to an account may not, | ||
using an electronic benefits transfer card subject to Section | ||
31.0357(a), make a cash withdrawal from the account through a | ||
provider of the goods or services described by Section 31.0355(a) | ||
unless the recipient presents photo identification verifying the | ||
recipient's identity as the card holder. A provider may presume | ||
that an electronic benefits transfer card that does not display the | ||
name of a recipient and any other authorized person is not subject | ||
to Section 31.0357(a) for purposes of this section. | ||
Sec. 31.0357. NAMES ON ELECTRONIC BENEFITS TRANSFER CARDS. | ||
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), each electronic benefits | ||
transfer card issued to a recipient, or other person authorized on | ||
the recipient's account, for purposes of delivering benefits under | ||
the financial assistance program must display the name of the | ||
recipient and any other authorized person, if applicable. | ||
(b) An electronic benefits transfer card issued by a local | ||
commission eligibility office is not subject to Subsection (a). | ||
SECTION 3. Not later than December 1, 2013, the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission shall ensure that electronic benefits | ||
transfer cards issued for purposes of delivering benefits to | ||
recipients under the financial assistance program under Chapter 31, | ||
Human Resources Code, conform to Subsection (a), Section 31.0357, | ||
Human Resources Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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