SF 1028

as introduced - 81st Legislature (1999 - 2000) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to human services; modifying transitional 
  1.3             care for TANF recipients; appropriating money; 
  1.4             amending Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 256K.07; 
  1.5             repealing Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 256J.30, 
  1.6             subdivision 6. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 256K.07, is 
  1.9   amended to read: 
  1.10     256K.07 [ELIGIBILITY FOR FOOD STAMPS, MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, 
  1.11  AND CHILD CARE.] 
  1.12     The participant shall be treated as an AFDC, MFIP-S, or 
  1.13  family general assistance recipient, whichever is applicable, 
  1.14  for food stamps, medical assistance, and child care eligibility 
  1.15  purposes.  The participant who leaves the program as a result of 
  1.16  increased earnings from employment shall be eligible for 
  1.17  transitional medical assistance and child care without regard to 
  1.18  AFDC, MFIP-S, or family general assistance receipt in three of 
  1.19  the six months preceding ineligibility. 
  1.20     Sec. 2.  [APPROPRIATION FOR HARD-TO-SERVE CLIENTS.] 
  1.21     $....... is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  1.22  commissioner of human services to provide services to 
  1.23  hard-to-serve MFIP recipients who have unique circumstances such 
  1.24  as mental illness, mental retardation, any disability, and other 
  1.25  categories as defined by the counties. 
  1.26     Sec. 3.  [REPEALER.] 
  2.1      Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 256J.30, subdivision 6, is 
  2.2   repealed.