Amendment No. am_136_2544

Am. H. B. No. 163

As Re-Referred by the House Rules and Reference Committee

__________________________ moved to amend as follows:

In line 259, delete "Beginning on" and insert "On"

In line 260, after "shall" insert "begin work to"

In line 263, delete "Thereafter, the department" and insert "Once the department is capable of issuing cards that meet those requirements, it"

The motion was __________ agreed to.

SYNOPSIS

SNAP chip-enabled cards

R.C. 5101.542

Modifies the bill's requirement that beginning on the bill's effective date the Department of Job and Family Services must ensure that all new electronic benefit transfer cards are chip-enabled cards to instead specify that the Department must begin work on the bill's effective date to meet that requirement.