Title 400, SOCIAL SERVICES

Sec. 5. (1) Except as provided in subsection (3) or section 8(2), an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or political subdivision of this state shall not issue coupons to recipients without being awarded a contract under this act. (2) As determined by the departmen…

Sec. 6. The department of management and budget shall develop standards and criteria for awarding contracts. The standards and criteria shall be consistent with this act and the food stamp program.

Sec. 7. (1) For each distribution area in this state, the department of management and budget shall issue requests for quotations, bid forms, and other printed information necessary for gathering bids and supporting information. The forms and printed information shall explain cle…

Sec. 8. (1) After evaluating the qualifications of all applicants for a distributorship, the department of management and budget shall determine, for each distribution area, which applicant meets the standards and criteria established by the department, demonstrates the ability t…

Sec. 9. A contract shall require a distributor to do or comply with not less than all of the following: (a) Require fidelity bonds of those employees of the distributor who, according to standards established by the department of management and budget, are involved with the distr…

Sec. 10. (1) The contract shall provide that the department of management and budget, on giving not less than 30 days' notice, may cancel a contract if the distributor fails to meet any requirement prescribed in section 9, except that any failure to comply with section 9(a) and (…

Sec. 11. (1) Beginning April 1, 1985, in each county in which at least 1 private sector distributor distributes coupons, the first 2 Saturdays of each month shall be considered eligibility days for recipients, except that a Saturday that is a state or national holiday shall not b…

Sec. 12. The family independence agency may require a distributor to relocate its distribution site to another location within a distribution area, but the family independence agency shall pay the cost of the relocation.

Sec. 13. The family independence agency, within 15 days after the end of each month or receipt of the billing statement from the distributor, whichever is later, shall pay compensation to a distributor for coupons distributed during the month. The family independence agency may s…

Sec. 14. (1) In a county in which a community action agency is designated to distribute coupons pursuant to section 8(2), the rate of compensation per transaction that is paid to the community action agency shall not be increased beyond the rate paid as of October 1, 1984, unless…

Sec. 16. A distributor is liable to the family independence agency for the value of all coupons lost while under the distributor's control.

Sec. 17. This act applies to all distribution areas in which the state uses an on-line computer system for verifying and transmitting information about recipients. This act does not apply to any area in this state in which food coupons are mailed to recipients.

Sec. 18. The family independence agency and the department of management and budget shall comply with the food stamp program in implementing this act.

Sec. 19. (1) The family independence agency shall explore the establishment of a mail issuance program for recipients who are disabled, elderly, would have to travel more than 1 hour each way to a food stamp distribution site, or are otherwise unable to travel to a distribution s…

Sec. 20. The family independence agency shall establish in each county participating in the on-line food stamp distribution program a monitoring committee consisting of representatives of the distributor, the county social service office, and food stamp recipients. Each committee…