Official Text and Analysis.

Provides that for any month the state unemployment rate is at or above 7 percent, the Department of Social and Health and Services may not count a temporary assistance for needy families recipient's cash grant towards the 60-month lifetime limi.

(1) Clarifies that the time limit extension criteria related to unemployment rates applies on or after March 1, 2020. (2) Provides that a family is not required to be a current recipient to be eligible for the additional time allowed under the extension so long as they received TANF after March 1, 2020, and that the additional benefits a family may receive will accrue after the effective date of the Act. (3) Removes the provision applying the Act retroactively to March 1, 2020, as well as prospectively. (4) Applies a contingent effective date of July 1, 2023, only if funding for providing time limit extensions through the 2021-2023 biennium is included in the 2021-23 operating budget. If funding is not provided in the budget, the act takes effect 90 days after adjournment of the session in which it is enacted. Adds a federal severability clause.

Clarifies that the time limit extension criteria related to unemployment rates applies on or after March 1, 2020. Adds a federal severability clause.

Senate concurred in House amendment(s).