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.
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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
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2-17 Name: Stuart Miller
2-18 Representing: Tx Fathers for Equal Rights
2-19 City: Austin
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