0001|                            HOUSE BILL 473
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           EARLENE ROBERTS
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO WORK INCENTIVE DEDUCTIONS AND EARNED INCOME
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0012|     DISREGARDS, INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTS, MICRO BUSINESS
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0013|     LOANS AND OTHER ENTREPRENEURSHIP OPPORTUNITIES; DECLARING AN
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0014|     EMERGENCY.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  A new section of the Public Assistance Act is
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0018|     enacted to read:
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0019|          "[<u>NEW MATERIAL</u>] WORK INCENTIVE DEDUCTIONS AND EARNED
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0020|     INCOME DISREGARDS.--The work incentive and earned income
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0021|     disregards program shall include an outreach campaign to
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0022|     encourage recipients to seek gainful employment or self-
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0023|     employment and to promote the state's policy of requiring work
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0024|     for those in need of public assistance for any person whose
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0025|     benefit group includes at least one dependent child.  The
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0001|     human services department shall deduct and disregard the
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0002|     following earned income and expenses from the person's
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0003|     countable income in determining need:
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0004|               A.  an amount, to be called the "work incentive
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0005|     deduction", equal to the first thirty dollars ($30.00) of the
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0006|     total of such earned income not otherwise disregarded plus
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0007|     one-third of the remainder thereof;
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0008|               B.  the work incentive deduction shall be allowed
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0009|     in each month that the benefit group has earned income that
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0010|     does not exceed one hundred percent of the federal poverty
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0011|     level;
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0012|               C.  the work incentive deduction shall be applied
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0013|     to the gross monthly income after the work-related expense
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0014|     deduction and before the child-care deduction are subtracted;
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0015|               D.  the work-related expense deduction shall be
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0016|     ninety dollars ($90.00) per month; and
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0017|               E.  the child-care deduction shall not exceed
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0018|     normal and customary community daycare costs and will be
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0019|     determined, periodically, not to exceed three years, by the
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0020|     children, youth and families department.
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0021|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0022|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect
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0023|     immediately.
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