BILL NUMBER: SB 2013	CHAPTERED  09/26/00

	CHAPTER   682
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 26, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 24, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 25, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 10, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 21, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 6, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MARCH 30, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Health and Human Services (Senators
Escutia (Chair), Figueroa, Hughes, Polanco, Solis, and Vasconcellos)
   (Principal coauthor:  Assembly Member Bock)

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2000

   An act to add Section 18901.8 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to food stamps.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 2013, Committee on Health and Human Services.  Food Stamp
Program:  application form.
   Existing law provides for the Food Stamp Program, under which each
county distributes food stamps allocated to this state by the
federal government to eligible households.
   This bill would require the State Department of Social Services,
in conjunction with affected stakeholder groups, and subject to
federal approval, to develop and implement a simplified and shorter
application form for nonassistance food stamp cases.  It would
require the form to be evaluated for use in specified multiprogram
applications.
   The bill would prohibit the department from requiring any county
to implement use of the simplified form until the county has been
allowed sufficient time to reprogram its automated systems for the
purpose of implementing the form.
   The bill would also require the department to provide information
on implementation, including a simplified form, to the appropriate
legislative committees on or before July 1, 2001.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 18901.8 is added to the Welfare and
Institutions Code, to read:
   18901.8.  (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, and with
receipt of necessary federal approvals, the State Department of
Social Services, in conjunction with affected stakeholder groups,
shall develop and implement, if otherwise feasible, a simplified and
shorter application form for nonassistance food stamp cases.  The
contents of this simpler form shall be evaluated for use in
multiprogram application forms for the Food Stamp, Medi-Cal, and
CalWORKs programs. The department shall seek any federal approvals
necessary for implementation of the form.
   (b) The department shall not require any county to implement use
of the form described in subdivision (a) until the county has been
allowed sufficient time to reprogram its automated systems for the
purpose of implementing the form.
   (c) The department shall provide information on implementation,
including a simplified form, to the appropriate legislative
committees on or before July 1, 2001.