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IA HSB23
SB
Status
1/15/2025
Primary Sponsor
Public Safety
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AI Summary
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Expands the Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing (DIAL) authority to collect inappropriately obtained benefits from the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM), in addition to existing authority over Health and Human Services debts
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Creates liens in favor of the state on property belonging to individuals who obtained HSEM benefits through false, misleading, incomplete, or inaccurate information, with county recorders required to maintain an index of these liens
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Requires DIAL to collect delinquent debts owed to HSEM as soon as practicable, using existing collection procedures including distress warrants
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Authorizes HSEM to refer suspected fraud cases from the disaster aid individual assistance grant program and disaster case advocacy grant program to DIAL for investigation
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Upon fraud conviction, requires the state to pursue all legal options including removal from other public assistance programs and garnishment of wages or state tax refunds until fraudulently claimed benefits are recovered
Legislative Description
A bill for an act relating to the recovery of benefits inappropriately obtained from the department of homeland security and emergency management.(See HF 249.)
Last Action
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 249.
2/6/2025