This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to operate an electronic system to reduce the error rate for eligibility determinations for food allotments under the statewide Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The bill authorizes the department to award grants to community-based organizations to provide matching funds for federal funding for approved SNAP outreach activities and to hire SNAP outreach community coordinators. The grant program is established by the department. The bill provides ongoing funding of $750,000 per fiscal year for the grant program. The bill directs the department to establish and maintain a contingency fund to provide SNAP benefits to SNAP benefit recipients in the event the Federal Government fails to provide SNAP benefit funding to the State. The balance in the fund may not exceed $87,000,000. The bill appropriates $87,000,000 in fiscal year 2025-26 to the fund. The bill provides ongoing funding of $96,400 per fiscal year for the cost of contracting for a position to support and manage SNAP outreach activities and assist with work to reduce the SNAP payment error rate.

Statutes affected:
Bill Text LD 2122, HP 1437: 22.3104