Bills › 89th General Assembly
Relating to a marriage income disregard in determining family investment program eligibility and grant amounts
Topics:Families & human services
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 16, 2022
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary When a single parent marries, the new spouse's income will not be counted toward the family's total for a certain number of months. This rule helps families stay eligible for assistance and determines how much money they receive from the family investment program. The change is meant to help households adjust after a marriage.1
Read the official explanation
This bill provides that in determining a family’s income and resources for purposes of the family’s initial and continuing eligibility for assistance and for determining grant amounts under the family investment program, in order to encourage marriage among single-parent households and assist those households when the child’s parent living in the household marries, the income of an individual whose needs were not previously included in the household and who marries the child’s parent living in the household shall be disregarded for a period of consecutive months beginning the month following the date of the marriage certificate.