3901 AMH COOK H2807.1

HB 3901 - H AMD 253 ADOPTED 3-17-97

By Representative Cooke

    Beginning on page 6, line 29, after "TIME LIMITS." strike all material through "payment." on page 7, line 2, and insert "(1) A family that includes an adult who has received temporary assistance for needy families for sixty months after the effective date of this section shall be ineligible for further temporary assistance for needy families assistance.

    (2) For the purposes of applying the rules of this section, the department shall count any month in which an adult family member received a temporary assistance for needy families cash assistance grant unless the assistance was provided when the family member was a minor child and not the head of the household or married to the head of the household."

EFFECT:  Clarifies the sixty-month time limit under the temporary assistance for needy families program.

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