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PRINTER'S NO. 3173
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2232
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY KAUFER, BERNSTINE, BOBACK, ZIMMERMAN, BURNS,
HERSHEY, SIMMONS, HELM, MASSER, SCHLEGEL CULVER, NELSON,
GILLEN AND JONES, JANUARY 17, 2020
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, JANUARY 17, 2020
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An
act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public
welfare laws of the Commonwealth," in public assistance,
further providing for workfare program.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 405.2 of the act of June 13, 1967
(P.L.31, No.21), known as the Human Services Code, is amended by
adding a subsection to read:
Section 405.2. Workfare Program.--* * *
(a.1) Within six months of the effective date of this
section, the department shall establish a workfare pilot program
in a county of the third class with a population between three
hundred fifteen thousand (315,000) and three hundred forty
thousand (340,000) as of the latest Federal decennial census in
accordance with the following:
(1) An individual receiving cash assistance under Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families may receive benefits while working
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for an employer for a forty-hour work week and receiving pay
equivalent to twenty hours of work.
(2) After the individual has worked for the employer for six
months, the individual may continue to receive cash assistance
and shall be paid for thirty hours for working a forty-hour work
week.
(3) After the individual has worked for the employer for
twelve months, the individual shall be paid for a full forty
hours of work for working a forty-hour work week, and the
department shall terminate the cash assistance payments to the
individual.
(4) Each other applicable provision of this section shall
apply to the workfare pilot program.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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