By:  Holzheauser                                      H.B. No. 2145
       73R5095 MLR-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the eligibility of certain minor parents to receive
    1-3  AFDC benefits.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 31, Human Resources Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 31.0051 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 31.0051.  MINOR PARENT RESIDING WITH RELATIVES.  (a)  If
    1-8  after an investigation the department determines that a child who
    1-9  is receiving financial assistance and services under this chapter
   1-10  on behalf of a dependent child benefits from residing with an adult
   1-11  family member who is also receiving assistance under this chapter,
   1-12  the department shall provide assistance and services to both
   1-13  persons as if they were living separately.
   1-14        (b)  The department may not provide to a person additional
   1-15  assistance or services for a dependent child born to the person
   1-16  while the person is receiving assistance under this section.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  If before implementing Section 31.0051, Human
   1-18  Resources Code, as added by this Act, the Texas Department of Human
   1-19  Services determines that a waiver or authorization from a federal
   1-20  agency is necessary for implementation, the department shall
   1-21  request the waiver or authorization and may delay implementing
   1-22  those provisions until the waiver or authorization is granted.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-24  applies to a person receiving financial assistance and services
    2-1  under Chapter 31, Human Resources Code, who is residing, on or
    2-2  after the effective date of this Act, with a family member who is
    2-3  also receiving assistance and services under Chapter 31, Human
    2-4  Resources Code.
    2-5        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.