HB 7 KY

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to establish that the terms "cash assistance" and "public assistance" do not include foster care, kinship care, fictive kin care, or relative placement payments; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to conduct annual analysis of expenditures related to the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program; provide for the allocation of unobligated TANF funds; establish restrictions on the use of cash assistance benefits; require the cabinet to utilize a single electronic benefit transfer card for each recipient of cash assistance benefits; direct the cabinet to establish a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) transitional benefit alternative; direct the cabinet to request SNAP waivers to establish an Elderly Simplified Application Project and a Standard Medical Deduction and waive certain time limit exceptions; direct the cabinet to implement certified change reporting requirements for SNAP benefits; establish conditions under which the cabinet shall implement community engagement requirements for individuals in the expanded Medicaid population; establish a work group to develop a framework for the creations of a Basic Health Program as permitted under the Affordable Care Act; prescribe actions to be taken by the Department for Medicaid Services in the event that the department is subject to federal temporary maintenance of effort restrictions that limit the department's ability to disenroll individuals from the state's medical assistance program; prohibit the cabinet and the Department for Medicaid Services from being designated as a qualified health entity for the purpose of making presumptive eligibility determinations for the state's medical assistance program; establish hospitals' responsibilities related to presumptive eligibility determinations for the state's medical assistance program; require the state's medical assistance program to provide coverage for substance use disorder treatment for incarcerated individuals; to permit a custodial parent who has been disqualified from receiving cash assistance benefits to designate a protective payee to receive benefits on behalf of a dependent minor child; require the cabinet to report to the Public Assistance Oversight and Advisory Committee on implementation of certain sections of this Act; establish the Attorney General's jurisdiction to enforce KRS Chapter 205; amend KRS 6.940 to reestablish the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Committee as the Public Assistance Oversight and Advisory Committee; amend KRS 205.178 require enrollment and benefit tracking agencies associated with SNAP to receive and review information from the Administrative Office of the Courts and the Department of Revenue; require the cabinet to assign SNAP recipients to employment and training programs; require the cabinet to obtain authorization from the General Assembly before seeking certain SNAP waivers; amend KRS 205.200 to prohibit the use of categorical eligibility and self-attestation; require the cabinet to use only the most recent available income data when determining eligibility for public assistance; permit the cabinet to disqualify an individual from receiving public assistance benefits if that individual traffics electronic benefit transfer cards; amend KRS 205.231 to permit individuals who are disqualified from receiving public assistance benefits to appeal that determination; amend KRS 205.525 to require reporting to the Public Assistance Oversight and Advisory Committee; amend KRS 205.725 to require the cabinet to upon receipt of an application for public assistance to take action to assure that the responsible parent or parents provides support to a child; amend KRS 441.045 to require that a county jailer notify the cabinet when a county prisoner is incarcerated and when they are released; require the cabinet to provide information on the child care assistance program to the Public Assistance Oversight and Advisory Committee; require the cabinet to seek approval of a waiver to eliminate mandatory hospital presumptive eligibility and restrict presumptive eligibility to children and pregnant women; direct the cabinet to seek federal approval of any state plan amendment or waiver deemed necessary to implement any provision of this Act; direct the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet to establish job posting Web site for private businesses; direct the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee to conduct an in-depth analysis of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program; create the Basic Health Program Task Force to study and make recommendations on the development of a basic health program; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet at least 4 times during the 2022 interim; require the task force to submit recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022; and provide for severability.

• D. Meade Republican · primary
• D. Osborne Republican · primary
• M. Prunty · primary

1. Mar 1, 2022 introduced in House · lower
2. Mar 1, 2022 to Committee on Committees (H) · lower
3. Mar 2, 2022 taken from Committee on Committees (H) · lower
4. Mar 2, 2022 1st reading · lower
5. Mar 2, 2022 returned to Committee on Committees (H) · lower
6. Mar 9, 2022 to Health & Family Services (H) · lower
7. Mar 14, 2022 taken from Health & Family Services (H) · lower
8. Mar 14, 2022 2nd reading · lower
9. Mar 14, 2022 returned to Health & Family Services (H) · lower
10. Mar 17, 2022 reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) · lower
11. Mar 17, 2022 taken from Rules · lower
12. Mar 17, 2022 placed in the Orders of the Day · lower
13. Mar 17, 2022 3rd reading, passed 71-26 with Committee Substitute (1) · lower
14. Mar 18, 2022 received in Senate · upper
15. Mar 18, 2022 to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
16. Mar 21, 2022 taken from Committee on Committees (S) · upper
17. Mar 21, 2022 1st reading · lower
18. Mar 21, 2022 returned to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
19. Mar 21, 2022 to Health & Welfare (S) · upper
20. Mar 22, 2022 taken from Health & Welfare (S) · upper
21. Mar 22, 2022 2nd reading · lower
22. Mar 22, 2022 returned to Health & Welfare (S) · upper
23. Mar 29, 2022 reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) · lower
24. Mar 29, 2022 floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute · lower
25. Mar 30, 2022 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 30, 2022 · lower
26. Mar 30, 2022 3rd reading, passed 24-12 with Committee Substitute (1), Committee Amendment (1-title) and Floor Amendment (1) · lower
27. Mar 30, 2022 received in House · lower
28. Mar 30, 2022 to Rules (H) · lower
29. Mar 30, 2022 posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1), committee amendment (1-title) and floor amendment (1) · lower
30. Mar 30, 2022 House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1), Floor Amendment (1), and Committee Amendment (1-title) · lower
31. Mar 30, 2022 passed 70-22 · lower
32. Mar 30, 2022 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House · lower
33. Mar 30, 2022 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate · upper
34. Mar 30, 2022 delivered to Governor · lower
35. Apr 8, 2022 Vetoed · lower
36. Apr 13, 2022 received in House · lower
37. Apr 13, 2022 to Rules (H) · lower
38. Apr 13, 2022 taken from Rules · lower
39. Apr 13, 2022 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto · lower
40. Apr 13, 2022 veto overridden · lower
41. Apr 13, 2022 passed 74-24 · lower
42. Apr 13, 2022 received in Senate · upper
43. Apr 13, 2022 to Rules (S) · upper
44. Apr 13, 2022 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto · lower
45. Apr 13, 2022 veto overridden · lower
46. Apr 13, 2022 passed 28-9 · lower
47. Apr 13, 2022 received in House · lower
48. Apr 14, 2022 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House · lower
49. Apr 14, 2022 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate · upper
50. Apr 14, 2022 delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 211) · lower

The published texts of this bill as it moves through the legislature. Each links to the official document on the state legislature site. Data from OpenStates.

• Acts Chapter 211 · PDF
• Current/Final · PDF
• Introduced · PDF