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HOUSE BILL 2226
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State of Washington 56th Legislature 1999 Regular Session
By Representative Tokuda
Read first time 02/23/1999. Referred to Committee on Children & Family Services.
AN ACT Relating to eliminating eligibility standards retained from the aid to families with dependent children program under the temporary assistance for needy families program; amending RCW 74.12.010 and 74.12.035; and repealing RCW 74.12.036.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 74.12.010 and 1997 c 59 s 16 are each amended to read as follows:
For
the purposes of the administration of temporary assistance for needy families,
the term "dependent child" means any child in need under the age of
eighteen years who ((has been deprived of parental support or care by reason
of the death, continued absence from the home, or physical or mental incapacity
of the parent, and who)) is living with a relative as specified under
federal temporary assistance for needy families program requirements, in a
place of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives as his or their
homes. The term a "dependent child" shall, notwithstanding the
foregoing, also include a child who would meet such requirements except for his
removal from the home of a relative specified above as a result of a judicial
determination that continuation therein would be contrary to the welfare of
such child, for whose placement and care the state department of social and
health services or the county office is responsible, and who has been placed in
a licensed or approved child care institution or foster home as a result of
such determination and who: (1) Was receiving an aid to families with
dependent children grant for the month in which court proceedings leading to
such determination were initiated; or (2) would have received aid to families
with dependent children for such month if application had been made therefor;
or (3) in the case of a child who had been living with a specified relative
within six months prior to the month in which such proceedings were initiated,
would have received aid to families with dependent children for such month if
in such month he had been living with such a relative and application had been
made therefor, as authorized by the Social Security Act((: PROVIDED, That
to the extent authorized by the legislature in the biennial appropriations act
and to the extent that matching funds are available from the federal
government, temporary assistance for needy families assistance shall be
available to any child in need who has been deprived of parental support or
care by reason of the unemployment of a parent or stepparent liable under this
chapter for support of the child)).
"Temporary
assistance for needy families" means money payments, services, and
remedial care with respect to a dependent child or dependent children and the
needy parent or relative with whom the child lives ((and may include another
parent or stepparent of the dependent child if living with the parent and if
the child is a dependent child by reason of the physical or mental incapacity
or unemployment of a parent or stepparent liable under this chapter for the
support of such child)).
Sec. 2. RCW 74.12.035 and 1997 c 59 s 18 are each amended to read as follows:
(((1)
A family or assistance unit is not eligible for aid for any month if for that
month the total income of the family or assistance unit, without application of
income disregards, exceeds one hundred eighty-five percent of the state
standard of need for a family of the same composition: PROVIDED, That for the
purposes of determining the total income of the family or assistance unit, the
earned income of a dependent child who is a full-time student for whom
temporary assistance for needy families is being provided shall be disregarded
for six months per calendar year.
(2)
Participation in a strike does not constitute good cause to leave or to refuse
to seek or accept employment. Assistance is not payable to a family for any
month in which any caretaker relative with whom the child is living is, on the
last day of the month, participating in a strike. An individual's need shall
not be included in determining the amount of aid payable for any month to a
family or assistance unit if, on the last day of the month, the individual is
participating in a strike.
(3)))
Children over eighteen years of age and under nineteen years of age who are
full-time students reasonably expected to complete a program of secondary
school, or the equivalent level of vocational or technical training, before
reaching nineteen years of age are eligible to receive temporary assistance for
needy families: PROVIDED HOWEVER, That if such students do not successfully
complete such program before reaching nineteen years of age, the assistance
rendered under this subsection during such period shall not be a debt due the
state.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. RCW 74.12.036 (One hundred hour rule--Unemployed--Criteria in state plan) and 1997 c 59 s 19 & 1994 c 299 s 11 are each repealed.
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