Section 46.028. Electronic benefit transfer.

  The department may deliver benefits that are administered by the department to recipients of the benefits by an electronic benefit transfer system if all of the following conditions are satisfied:

(1)  The department obtains any authorization from a federal agency that is required under federal law to deliver the benefits by an electronic benefit transfer system.

(2)  The department promulgates an administrative rule to deliver the benefits by an electronic benefits transfer system.

(3)  The department does not require a county or tribal governing body to use the electronic benefit transfer system if the costs to the county or tribal government of delivering the benefits by the electronic benefit transfer system would be greater than the costs to the county or tribal government of delivering the benefits by means other than an electronic benefit transfer system.

2009 a. 28 .