Senate File 494 H-1229 Amend Senate File 494, as amended, passed, and reprinted by 1 the Senate, as follows: 2 1. Page 10, line 32, after < this chapter. > by inserting 3 < In administering this chapter, the department shall implement 4 strategies to ensure that, due to the provisions of this 5 chapter, no child recipient of public assistance benefits loses 6 benefits by default rather than due to an actual determination 7 of eligibility. The strategies shall include, as part of the 8 administration of the provisions of this chapter, an actual 9 redetermination of a child recipient’s eligibility prior to 10 discontinuation of eligibility and the provision of information 11 about and assistance in transitioning to other options for food 12 assistance, cash assistance, and health care coverage that are 13 not more costly than the current benefits to the child or the 14 child’s family, if the child’s redetermination finds the child 15 is no longer eligible for public assistance. > 16 ______________________________ BROWN-POWERS of Black Hawk -1- SF 494.1613 (1) 90 pf/rh 1/ 1 #1.