Introduced
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To phase in a cumulative 48-month lifetime cap on the receipt of cash welfare benefits, with exceptions for the disabled and for recipients caring for a disabled child or spouse. A month in which the regional unemployment rate exceeds 10 percent would not count toward the limit. Under current law, Michigan has no time limit for cash assistance.
Referred to the Committee on Families and Childrens Services
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises details but does not change the substance of the bill as previously described.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To tie-bar the bill to a package of legislation increasing the level of hourly wage below which it unlawful to pay an employee. "Tie-bar" means this bill could not become law unless those ones does also.
The amendment failed 50 to 57 (details)
Amendment offered
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To not move the sunset on the welfare reform law to 2015, but instead sunset it at the end of 2006.
The amendment failed 50 to 57 (details)
Amendment offered
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To increase to 52 weeks the maximum time period during which a person can collect unemployment insurance benefits. The vote was actually on the Ward motion to affirm that the amendment was not "germane" or directly related to the section of law the bill amended.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Motion
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To affirm that the Espinoza amendment is not "germane," or directly related to the section of law the bill amends. The Espinoza amendment would increase to 52 weeks the maximum time period during which a person can collect unemployment insurance benefits.
The motion passed 57 to 50 (details)
Passed in the House 64 to 43 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Families and Human Services
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Substitute offered
To replace the previous version of the bill with one that provides additional exemptions to the 48 month lifetime limit, including ones for victims of domestic violence, and expands exemptions for those dealing with a temporary illness that prevents working. It also extends the welfare reform law to 2010, not 2015. An individual who has been meeting all the rules could apply for a one-year extension of the 48-month cash assistance limit.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To clarify that the bill does not prohibit providing assistance to certain individuals who are exempt from the four-year cash benefits cap.
The amendment passed 36 to 0 (details)
Amendment offered
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To give the Department of Human Services the authority to waive in certain cases the four-year cash assistance cap on able-bodies welfare recipients.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To not count time a person was on welfare before passage of the proposed four-year cash assistance cap on able-bodies welfare recipients toward that four-year cap.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To eliminate the tie-bars connecting this bill to the rest of the welfare reform update package, meaning those bills could go into effect even if this four-year cap bill does not.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To clarify that the bill does not prohibit providing assistance to certain individuals who are exempt from the four-year cash benefits cap.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 24 to 12 (details)
To phase in a cumulative 48-month lifetime cap on the receipt of cash welfare benefits, with exceptions for the disabled and for recipients caring for a disabled child or spouse. A month in which the regional unemployment rate exceeds 10 percent would not count toward the limit. Under current law, Michigan has no time limit for cash assistance. An individual who has been meeting all the rules could apply for a one-year extension of the 48-month limit.
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises details but does not change the substance of the bill as previously described.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To only extend the sunset of the bill through Fiscal Year 2009.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 63 to 44 (details)
To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill, which provides a one-year extension of the 48-month cash assistance limit in certain circumstances.
Passed in the Senate 23 to 14 (details)
To concur with the House-passed version of the bill, which only extends the sunset of the these welfare changes through Fiscal Year 2009, and makes other minor changes.
