SNAP; mandatory employment and training.., the official text

REFERENCE TITLE: SNAP; mandatory employment and training..

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SB 1331

Introduced by

Senator
Kavanagh

AN
ACT

amending
title 46, chapter 2, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 46-232;
relating to the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 46, chapter 2, article 2,
Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 46-232, to read:

START_STATUTE46-232. Supplemental nutrition assistance program; mandatory employment
and training

The department of
economic security shall require able-bodied adults who are under sixty
years of age and who are receiving supplemental nutrition assistance to
participate in a mandatory employment and training program, as prescribed in 7
United States Code Section 2015(d), unless the recipient
is:

1. In
compliance with the work registration requirements under title IV of the social
security act or the federal-state unemployment compensation
system. A recipient who is noncompliant with the work registration
requirements under Title IV of the social security act or the federal-state
unemployment compensation system is noncompliant with the work requirements of
7 United States Code section 2015(d).

2. A
parent or other member of a household who is responsible for the care of an
incapacitated person or a dependent child who is under six years of age.

3. A bona
fide student who is enrolled at least half time in any recognized school,
training program or institution of higher education unless the recipient is
ineligible to participate pursuant to 7 United States Code section 2015(e).

4. A
regular participant in a drug addiction or an alcoholic treatment and
rehabilitation program.

5. Employed
at least thirty hours per week or receives weekly earnings that equal the
minimum hourly rate under the fair labor standards act of 1938 (52 Stat. 1060;
29 United States Code sections 201 through 219), multiplied by thirty hours.

6. Sixteen,
seventeen or eighteen years of age and is not the head of a household or
attends school or is enrolled in an employment training program on at least a
half-time basis. END_STATUTE