LRB-0151/1
PJK:wlj:md
2011 - 2012 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Skwarczek, BB0002 - FoodShare benefits for qualified aliens
For 2011-13 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Health and human services
Public assistance
Under current law, DHS provides benefits under the food stamp program to qualified aliens, unless such benefits are restored by the federal government. Under federal law, a state may, but is not required to, provide food stamp benefits to qualified aliens, and any state that does provide such benefits must pay the whole cost itself. This bill eliminates the provision of FoodShare benefits to qualified aliens, except to the extent that it is required under federal law.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 49.79 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.79
(8) Benefits for qualified aliens. The department shall
not provide benefits under this section to a qualified alien
who is ineligible for benefits under this section solely because of the application of 9 USC 1612 or 1613 according to a plan approved by the federal department of agriculture. This subsection does not apply, except to the extent that federal food stamp benefits for qualified aliens are
restored required by the federal government.
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