H-1229

   Amend Senate File 494, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  Page 10, line 32, after <this chapter.> by inserting <In administering this chapter, the department shall implement strategies to ensure that, due to the provisions of this chapter, no child recipient of public assistance benefits loses benefits by default rather than due to an actual determination of eligibility. The strategies shall include, as part of the administration of the provisions of this chapter, an actual redetermination of a child recipient’s eligibility prior to discontinuation of eligibility and the provision of information about and assistance in transitioning to other options for food assistance, cash assistance, and health care coverage that are not more costly than the current benefits to the child or the child’s family, if the child’s redetermination finds the child is no longer eligible for public assistance.>

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BROWN-POWERS of Black Hawk