HB438 Alabama 2016 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2016

Title

Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits, waiver by status of work requirements to receive, prohibited

Description

<p class="bill_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)</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would also require the Department of Human Resources to develop a work training program for recipients of SNAP benefits</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to federal assistance; to 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 (SNAP); to 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; and to require the Department of Human Resources to develop a work training program for recipients of SNAP benefits. </p>

Subjects

Food Stamps