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SF0118 • 2015

Personal opportunity with employment responsibilities.

AN ACT relating to the personal opportunity with employment responsibilities (POWER) program; amending eligibility criteria; amending sanctions for noncompliance with a self-sufficiency plan; amending beneficiary reporting requirements; and providing for an effective date.

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Senator Craft
Last action
2015-03-12
Official status
enrolled
Effective date
7/1/2015

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Amendments

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SF0118HW001

Committee of the Whole • Jennings

Adopted

Plain English: Adopted Committee of the Whole by Jennings

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SF0118S3001

3rd reading • Meier

Failed

Plain English: Failed 3rd reading by Meier

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Bill History

  1. 2015-03-12 LSO

    Assigned Chapter Number

  2. 2015-03-12 Governor

    Governor Signed SEA No. 0081

  3. 2015-03-05 House

    H Speaker Signed SEA No. 0081

  4. 2015-03-05 Senate

    S President Signed SEA No. 0081

  5. 2015-03-05 LSO

    Assigned Number SEA No. 0081

  6. 2015-03-05 Senate

    S Concur:Passed 24-5-1-0-0

  7. 2015-03-05 Senate

    S Received for Concurrence

  8. 2015-03-04 House

    H 3rd Reading:Passed 41-18-1-0-0

  9. 2015-03-03 House

    H 3rd Reading:Laid Back

  10. 2015-03-02 House

    H 2nd Reading:Passed

  11. 2015-02-27 House

    H COW:Passed

  12. 2015-02-27 House

    Amendment Adopted

  13. 2015-02-24 House

    H Placed on General File

  14. 2015-02-24 House

    Corporations:Recommend Do Pass 6-3-0-0-0

  15. 2015-02-18 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations

  16. 2015-02-06 House

    H Received for Introduction

  17. 2015-02-06 Senate

    S 3rd Reading:Passed 20-10-0-0-0

  18. 2015-02-06 Senate

    Amendment failed

  19. 2015-02-05 Senate

    S 2nd Reading:Passed

  20. 2015-02-04 Senate

    S COW:Passed

  21. 2015-02-04 Senate

    S Placed on General File

  22. 2015-02-04 Senate

    Labor:Recommend Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0

  23. 2015-01-30 Wyoming Legislature

    :Rerefer to S10 - Labor

  24. 2015-01-26 Senate

    S Introduced and Referred to S07 - Corporations

  25. 2015-01-26 Senate

    S Received for Introduction

  26. 2015-01-22 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Official Summary Text

Summary for LSO115
Bill No.:
SF0118
Effective
:
7/1/2015

LSO No.:
15LSO-0444

Enrolled Act No.:
SEA 81

Chapter No.:
187

Prime Sponsor:
Craft

Catch Title:
Personal opportunity with employment responsibilities.

Subject:
Amends eligibility and sanctions in the POWER program.

Summary/Major Elements:

The Department of Family Services administers the Personal Opportunity with Employment Responsibilities (POWER) program, which provides time-limited cash assistance to low-income recipients with children
if the recipients
are in school or compliant with a self-sufficiency employment plan.

This act:

Increases the income disregard from $200 to $600 per month per recipient;

For those recipients failing to comply with a self-sufficiency plan, deletes the sanction of disqualification for supplemental nutrition assistance benefits, while leaving in place the sanction of disqualification from the POWER program.

The above summary is not an official publication of the Wyoming Legislature and is not an official statement of legislative intent. While the Legislative Service Office endeavored to provide accurate information in this summary, it should not be relied upon as a comprehensive abstract of the bill.

Current Bill Text

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ORIGINAL
Senate
File No
.
SF0118

ENROLLED ACT
NO. 81,

SENATE

SIXTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2015 General Session

AN ACT relating to the personal opportunity with employment responsibilities (POWER) program; amending eligibility criteria; amending sanctions for noncompliance with a self-sufficiency plan; amending beneficiary reporting requirements; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
.

W.S. 42
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2
‑
103(e)(iv)
(intro)
and
(v) is
amended to read:

42
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2
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103
.

Provision of assistance and services; duties of department; burial assistance; state supplemental security income program.

(e)

In administering this section and in addition to other requirements imposed under this chapter and the Wyoming Medical Assistance and Services Act and federal rule and regulation, the department shall by rule and regulation:

(iv)

Establish only one (1) earned income disregard for determining assistance payable under W.S. 42
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2
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104 at
two hundred dollars ($200.00)

six hundred dollars ($600.00)
per month for any one (1) recipient.
For married couples the earned income disregard shall be
four hundred dollars ($400.00)
one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200.00)

per month.
The department may in addition establish an additional individual earned income disregard tailored to the individual person as part of that person's self
‑
sufficiency plan developed pursuant to paragraph (v) of this subsection, provided:

(v)

In accordance with guidelines and criteria prescribed by rule and regulation of the department and
unless otherwise qualifying for a good cause exemption pursuant to rule and regulation of the department, require the development of and adherence to a self
‑
sufficiency plan with guidelines and assistance provided by the department, as a condition for benefit eligibility under the personal opportunities with employment responsibi
lities (POWER) program. A self
‑
sufficiency plan including timely completion of an approved educational program complying with W.S. 42
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2
‑
109(a) shall be deemed to meet the requirements of this subsection if adhered to. Any person not qualifying for a good cause exemption and failing to comply with this paragraph shall be sanctioned
, to include disqualification

under the personal opportunities with employment responsibilities (POWER) program
.

and be disqualified from receiving benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance and medical assistance programs. The sanction shall be established at a level which would continue to assure children in a
noncompliance
household would be eligible for supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits and Medicaid.

Subject to procedure prescribed by department regulation, any recipient may at any time request a good cause exemption from the requirements of this section;

Section
2
.

This
act is effective July 1,
2015
.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the
Senate
.

Chief Clerk

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