STATE OF MICHIGAN

93RD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2005

Introduced by Reps. Pearce, Green, Hummel, Sheen, Hansen, Stahl, Hildenbrand, Stakoe, Shaffer, Mortimer, Hoogendyk, Palmer, Rocca, Gosselin, Pavlov, Booher, Moore, Marleau, Kooiman, Farhat and Brandenburg

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5440

AN ACT to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled "An act to protect the welfare of the people of this state; to provide general assistance, hospitalization, infirmary and medical care to poor or unfortunate persons; to provide for compliance by this state with the social security act; to provide protection, welfare and services to aged persons, dependent children, the blind, and the permanently and totally disabled; to administer programs and services for the prevention and treatment of delinquency, dependency and neglect of children; to create a state department of social services; to prescribe the powers and duties of the department; to provide for the interstate and intercounty transfer of dependents; to create county and district departments of social services; to create within certain county departments, bureaus of social aid and certain divisions and offices thereunder; to prescribe the powers and duties of the departments, bureaus and officers; to provide for appeals in certain cases; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state department with respect to county and district departments; to prescribe certain duties of certain other state departments, officers, and agencies; to make an appropriation; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates," (MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding section 57p.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 57p. (1) If an applicant for family independence assistance who resided in this state for less than 1 year asserts that he or she did not receive cash assistance or other medical assistance from the state or states he or she resided in previously, the department shall do both of the following:

(a) Determine the state or states of residence for the applicant in the year immediately preceding the date of application for family independence assistance.

(b) Determine if the applicant received any type of cash assistance or medical assistance benefits from the state or states in which he or she resided.

(2) If the department determines that an individual received assistance in a state other than Michigan, the department shall determine the amount of time that the applicant received assistance in that state. The amount of time the applicant received assistance in a state other than Michigan, as determined by the department, shall be counted in the applicant's 48-month lifetime cumulative total amount of months to receive family independence assistance under this act.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor