HOUSE AMENDMENT
    h1431-08                                      Bill No. HB 1431
    Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
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11  Representative(s) Lerner offered the following:
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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         On page 7, between lines 18 and 19, of the bill
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17         Section 4.  Subsection (3) is added to section 414.31,
18  Florida Statutes, to read:
19         414.31  State agency for administering federal food
20  stamp program.--
21         (3)  The state elects, within the provisions of Pub. L.
22  No. 106-387, to adopt more liberal methodologies for valuing
23  vehicles as assets for purposes of food stamp eligibility than
24  the regular food stamp rules allow. The department is directed
25  to exclude from consideration as an asset the value of the
26  vehicles of food stamp applicants and recipients to the same
27  extent that vehicles' values are financially excluded as
28  assets under any program providing assistance under the state
29  program funded under part A of Title IV of the Social Security
30  Act. Additionally, the department shall apply the most
31  favorable rules of resource exclusion, and the most favorable
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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT
    h1431-08                                      Bill No. HB 1431
    Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
 1  rules for treating nonprimary vehicles, from either the food
 2  stamp program or any program providing assistance under the
 3  state program funded under part A of Title IV of the Social
 4  Security Act. The department is authorized to adopt rules to
 5  implement this subsection, which rules shall be implemented no
 6  later than January 1, 2002.
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10  And the title is amended as follows:
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13  after the semicolon, insert:
14         amending s. 414.31, F.S.; providing a
15         methodology for valuing vehicles as assets for
16         purposes of food stamp eligibility; providing
17         rulemaking authority; providing a deadline for
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