HB438 Alabama 2016 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Tommy Hanes
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2016
Title: Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits, waiver by status of work requirements to receive, prohibited
Description: Under existing law, in certain circumstances, a state may request, a waiver from the U.S. Department of Agriculture of the work requirements that an able-bodied adult without dependents must comply with in order to receive assistance from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP).
This bill would prohibit the Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources from requesting a waiver of federal job requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents who are applicants or recipients of the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.
This bill would require all able-bodied adults without dependents who are applicants or recipients of SNAP benefits to participate in minimum work requirements, a work training program, or volunteer community service and provide limited exemptions from these work requirements.
This bill would also require the Department of Human Resources to develop a work training program for recipients of SNAP benefits.
Subjects: Food Stamps

Indefinitely Postponed

State Government first Amendment Offered

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on State Government