1-1 By: McCall, Vowell (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 54 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 1993; 1-3 May 14, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Health 1-4 and Human Services; May 20, 1993, reported adversely, with 1-5 favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 1-6 0; May 20, 1993, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-9 Zaffirini x 1-10 Ellis x 1-11 Madla x 1-12 Moncrief x 1-13 Nelson x 1-14 Patterson x 1-15 Shelley x 1-16 Truan x 1-17 Wentworth x 1-18 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 54 By: Zaffirini 1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-20 AN ACT 1-21 relating to the establishment of a parental responsibility pilot 1-22 program to assist certain teenage parents receiving AFDC. 1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-24 SECTION 1. PILOT PROGRAM. (a) The Texas Department of 1-25 Human Services shall establish a parental responsibility pilot 1-26 program designed to discourage teenage pregnancy, encourage teenage 1-27 parents to marry, and improve through education, job training, and 1-28 support services the work and parenting skills of a teenage parent 1-29 who receives financial assistance under the department's aid to 1-30 families with dependent children program. The department shall, 1-31 when appropriate, include both parents of the child in the program. 1-32 (b) The department shall adopt rules and a timetable to 1-33 implement and complete the pilot program. The department shall use 1-34 the Wisconsin parental and family responsibility initiative as a 1-35 model for the pilot program and adapted as necessary for Texas 1-36 conditions. 1-37 (c) The department shall select not more than three 1-38 counties, each with a population of 250,000 or more according to 1-39 the most recent federal census, in which to establish the pilot 1-40 program. 1-41 SECTION 2. REPORT. Not later than January 1, 1997, the 1-42 Texas Department of Human Services shall submit to the governor and 1-43 the 75th Legislature a report concerning the effectiveness of the 1-44 pilot program. 1-45 SECTION 3. WAIVERS. If before implementing Section 1 of 1-46 this Act the Texas Department of Human Services determines that a 1-47 waiver or authorization from a federal agency is necessary for 1-48 implementation, the department shall request the waiver or 1-49 authorization and may delay implementing those provisions until the 1-50 waiver or authorization is granted. 1-51 SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE AND DEADLINES. (a) This Act 1-52 takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-53 (b) The Texas Department of Human Services shall establish 1-54 the pilot program required by this Act not later than January 1, 1-55 1994. 1-56 SECTION 5. EXPIRATION DATE. This Act expires September 1, 1-57 1997. 1-58 SECTION 6. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 1-59 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-60 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-61 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-62 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-63 * * * * * 1-64 Austin, 1-65 Texas 1-66 May 20, 1993 1-67 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-68 President of the Senate 2-1 Sir: 2-2 We, your Committee on Health and Human Services to which was 2-3 referred H.B. No. 54, have had the same under consideration, and I 2-4 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the 2-5 recommendation that it do not pass, but that the Committee 2-6 Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do pass and be printed. 2-7 Moncrief, 2-8 Acting Chair 2-9 * * * * * 2-10 WITNESSES 2-11 FOR AGAINST ON 2-12 ___________________________________________________________________ 2-13 Name: Anne Heiligenstein x 2-14 Representing: Tx Dept Human Services 2-15 City: Austin 2-16 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-17 Name: Stuart Miller 2-18 Representing: Tx Fathers for Equal Rights 2-19 City: Austin 2-20 -------------------------------------------------------------------