AB 2 — Relating to: statewide FoodShare employment and training program requirement for able-bodied adults. (FE)

- 2018 LEGISLATURE LRB-5213/1LRB-5542/1 TJD:kjf January 2018 Special Session TJD:emw&aheENGROSSED ASSEMBLY BILL 2 JanuaryFebruary 26,16, 2018 - IntroducedPrinted by Cdirection OMMITTEEofENATE ON ASSEMBLY ORGANIZATION, Representatives VOS , ELZKOWSKI , HIESFELDT, AGLER , ANFELIPPO , USLER, P ETERSEN, DUCHOW , ETRYK , KUGLITSCH, ITTL, KNODL, BRANDTJEN , MURPHY, N EYLON, SPIROS, WICHGERS, BERNIER, KRUG, KLEEFISCH, OHRKASTE , KATSMA, B ORN, KREMER and SWEARINGEN , cosponsored by Senators KAPENGA , RAIG, C OWLES,HIEFC DLERK. ARLING , FEYEN , L EM AHIEU, N ASS, S TROEBEL, V UKMIR and W ANGGAARD , by request of Governor Scott Walker.

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the bill as affected by Assembly Amendments 1, 2, 3, and 4.

The text also includes the February 16, 2018, chief clerk's correction to January 2018 Special Session Assembly Bill 2 and chief clerk's correction to Assembly Amendment 3.

Content of Engrossed January 2018 Special Session Assembly Bill 2:

This bill requires the Department of Health Services to require all able-bodied adults to participate in the FoodShare employment and training program, known as FSET, except for able-bodied adults who are already employed, as determined by DHS;

able-bodied adults who are caretakers of a child under the age of six;

able-bodied adults who are at least half-time students;

and caretakers of a dependent who is disabled.

An able-bodied adult is 18 years of age or older but younger than 50 years of age, not pregnant, not exempt from a work requirement under federal regulations, and- not2018 determinedLegislature to- be2 medically- certifiedLRB-5542/1 asJan. physically or mentally unfit for employment.

Currently, able-bodied adults without dependents are required to comply with certain work requirements as a condition of FoodShare eligibility, though the FSET program is voluntary.

The Biennial Budget Act, 2017 Wisconsin Act 59, specified that DHS may require able-bodied adults to participate in FSET and allowed DHS to require a subset of, instead of all, able individuals who are 18 to 60 years of age and who are not Wisconsin Works participants to participate in FSET, to the extent allowed by the federal government.

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Currently, able-bodied adults without dependents are required to comply with certain work requirements as a condition of FoodShare eligibility, though the FSET program is voluntary.

The 2017 Biennial Budget Act, 2017 Wisconsin Act 59, specified that DHS may require able-bodied adults to participate in FSET and allowed DHS to require a subset of, instead of all, able individuals who are 18 to 60 years of age and who are not Wisconsin Works participants to participate in FSET, to the extent allowed by the federal government.

The bill requests the Joint Legislative Audit Committee to require the Legislative Audit Bureau to perform a financial and performance evaluation audit of FSET in 2019.

The bill restores language eliminated in the biennial budget act, 2017 Wisconsin Act 59.

To receive a child care subsidy under Wisconsin Shares, an individual must be seeking child care to participate in an approved activity.

Among the approved activities before Act 59 was participation in a job search or work experience component of FSET.

The budget removed language such that participation in a component of FSET would be an approved activity.

This bill restores the language such that participation in a job search or work experience component of FSET is an approved activity for purposes of Wisconsin Shares.

The bill also requires DHS to submit to the appropriate federal agency a request that, if the state's reforms to FoodShare and FSET result in savings to the federal government, the federal government would share those savings with the state to facilitate administration of assisting able-bodied adults in finding employment.

SECTIONS 1.ECTION 1g.

49.155 (1m) (a) 3m.

of the statutes, as affected by 2017 Wisconsin Act 59, is amended to read:

49.155(1m) (a) 3m.

Participating in a job search or work experience component of the food stamp employment and training program under s.

49.79 (9).

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and 3., beginning October 1, 2019, the department shall require, to the extent allowed by the federal government, all able-bodied adults in this state to participate in the employment and training program under this subsection.subsection, except for able-bodied adults who are employed, as determined by the department.