Senate Bill sb1000

    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1000

    By Senator Posey





    24-462A-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to income-eligibility

  3         requirements for state-funded programs;

  4         providing legislative intent; requiring an

  5         applicant for any state-funded program having

  6         an income-eligibility requirement to provide

  7         certain documentation to show proof of

  8         household income; providing an effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Legislative intent.--It is the intent of

13  the Legislature that benefits provided under state-funded

14  programs be provided to qualifying households or their members

15  and not to nonqualifying households or their members. In order

16  to ensure that a household or its members are qualified, a

17  recipient of a state-funded program must accurately and fully

18  disclose all taxable and nontaxable income of all household

19  members as required by the program.

20         Section 2.  Proof of income for purposes of determining

21  eligibility for state-funded programs.--In determining

22  eligibility for any state-funded program that requires proof

23  of income, an applicant shall provide, during the application

24  process and when redetermining eligibility, written

25  documentation that includes, but need not be limited to, proof

26  of household income, which must include a copy of the most

27  recent federal income tax return for each member of the

28  household. If any member of the household is not required to

29  file a federal income tax return, the applicant may submit

30  income information for that member by submitting wage and

31  earning statements or pay stubs, W-2 forms, or other

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1000
    24-462A-05




 1  appropriate documents reflecting the member's income for the

 2  previous 3 months, or as otherwise required by the

 3  state-funded program.

 4         Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

 5  law.

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 8                          SENATE SUMMARY

 9    Requires an applicant for any state-funded program having
      an income-eligibility requirement to provide certain
10    written documentation to show proof of household income.
      (See bill for details.)
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