2006 Senate Bill 1501 ↩

House Roll Call 1383: Passed

To establish that an able bodied person may only collect cash welfare payments for 48 months during their lifetime, subject to exceptions defined by the Department of Human Services. (Previous welfare time limit bills vetoed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm did not grant the department this power to create exceptions.) The proposed statute itself contains exceptions for individuals who are mentally or physically disabled, have low intelligence or learning disabilities, and other conditions. This bill contains “clock stoppers” on the time limit, such as whenever the unemployment rate in the county a recipient lives in exceeds the state average by 25 percent. See also House Bill 6580.