Act No. 324

Public Acts of 2005

Approved by the Governor

December 22, 2005

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 27, 2005

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 27, 2005

STATE OF MICHIGAN

93RD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2005

Introduced by Reps. Ball, Mortimer, Acciavatti, Gosselin and Kooiman

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5442

AN ACT to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled "An act to protect the welfare of the people of this state; to provide general assistance, hospitalization, infirmary and medical care to poor or unfortunate persons; to provide for compliance by this state with the social security act; to provide protection, welfare and services to aged persons, dependent children, the blind, and the permanently and totally disabled; to administer programs and services for the prevention and treatment of delinquency, dependency and neglect of children; to create a state department of social services; to prescribe the powers and duties of the department; to provide for the interstate and intercounty transfer of dependents; to create county and district departments of social services; to create within certain county departments, bureaus of social aid and certain divisions and offices thereunder; to prescribe the powers and duties of the departments, bureaus and officers; to provide for appeals in certain cases; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state department with respect to county and district departments; to prescribe certain duties of certain other state departments, officers, and agencies; to make an appropriation; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates," (MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding section 57o.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 57o. The department shall study the impact and cost of increasing the amount of earned income that is disregarded in determining a program group member's income for continued family independence assistance financial eligibility. The department shall prepare and provide to the senate and house appropriations committees, the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on the department of human services, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the senate and house policy staff, by April 1, 2006, a written report of the department's findings from the study.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor