HB 2232 Summary

• Amends Arizona's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to modify work requirement compliance standards for families seeking to extend cash assistance beyond 12 months.

• Changes the requirement for head of household compliance from "in full compliance and remains in full compliance" to simply "in full compliance" during the additional 12-month extension period.

• Modifies sanctions structure for noncompliance by reducing the first violation penalty from 50% to 25% of household cash assistance grant for one month.

• Adds a new second-level sanction reducing benefits by 50% for a second noncompliance instance occurring in a different month than the first violation.

• Increases the threshold to three instances of noncompliance (instead of two) before cash assistance grant termination for at least one month or until compliance is achieved.