Introduced
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To require welfare recipients with school age children to ensure the children attend school or else lose benefits, and require the state welfare agency to promulgate rules to make it so. If the child is age 16 or 17 he or she would be "removed" from the welfare "program group," meaning the family and/or household.
Referred to the Committee on Families, Children and Seniors
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require that any school age child not attending school be removed from the family or household (the welfare "control group"), not just ones who are age 16 or 17.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To authorize exceptions, appeals and "second chance" intervention requirements for the proposed requirement.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 78 to 32 (details)
To require welfare recipients who have school age children to ensure the children attend school or else lose benefits, and require the state welfare agency to promulgate rules to make it so. If the child is age 16 or 17 he or she would be "removed" from the welfare "program group," meaning the family and/or household.
Referred to the Committee on Families, Seniors, and Human Services
