HLS 21RS-549 ORIGINAL
2021 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 6
BY REPRESENTATIVE ECHOLS
SNAP/FOOD STAMPS: Requests that the Dept. of Children and Family Services and the
Louisiana Gaming Control Board develop a data-sharing agreement for identification
of lottery winners who receive SNAP benefits
1 A RESOLUTION
2To urge and request the Department of Children and Family Services and the Louisiana
3 Gaming Control Board to develop a data-sharing agreement to facilitate
4 identification of lottery winners who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
5 Program benefits.
6 WHEREAS, the program formerly known as "food stamps" was renamed the
7Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in 2008; and
8 WHEREAS, SNAP, which is administered at the state level by the Louisiana
9Department of Children and Family Services, is the largest of all federal food assistance
10programs and provides support to needy households and to those making the transition from
11welfare to work; and
12 WHEREAS, in January of 2021, nine hundred eighty-one thousand seven hundred
13fifty-one individuals received nutrition assistance benefits through Louisiana's SNAP
14program; and
15 WHEREAS, because SNAP is a means-tested assistance program, applicants must
16meet its income eligibility requirements in order to qualify for program benefits; and
17 WHEREAS, leaders at the Department of Children and Family Services and the
18Louisiana Gaming Control Board have previously endeavored to develop a data-sharing
19agreement which would facilitate the identification of lottery winners who are receiving
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1SNAP benefits, but have not yet been successful in perfecting and executing such an
2agreement; and
3 WHEREAS, with respect to administration of public assistance programs, the term
4"program integrity" refers to actions by the administering agency to detect and prevent fraud,
5waste, and abuse in those programs, and thereby ensure that public dollars are expended only
6on assistance and services for people who are eligible for benefits provided through those
7programs; and
8 WHEREAS, the identification of lottery winners who are receiving SNAP benefits
9would enhance SNAP program integrity functions of the Department of Children and Family
10Services.
11 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
12Legislature of Louisiana does hereby urge and request the Department of Children and
13Family Services and the Louisiana Gaming Control Board to develop a data-sharing
14agreement which would facilitate checking of data at a minimum frequency, which shall be
15at least monthly, for identification of lottery winners who receive Supplemental Nutrition
16Assistance Program benefits.
17 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
18secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services and the chairman of the
19Louisiana Gaming Control Board.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HR 6 Original 2021 Regular Session Echols
Requests the Dept. of Children and Family Services and the La. Gaming Control Board to
develop a data-sharing agreement which would facilitate checking of data for identification
of lottery winners who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
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