S.B. No. 284
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the definition of a dependent child for the purpose of
    1-2  eligibility for AFDC.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 31.002, Human Resources
    1-5  Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  In this chapter, the term "dependent child" applies to a
    1-7  child:
    1-8              (1)  who is a resident of this state;
    1-9              (2)  who is under 18 years of age or is under 19 <21>
   1-10  years of age and is a full-time student in a secondary school or at
   1-11  the equivalent level of vocational or technical training if, before
   1-12  the child's 19th birthday, the child may reasonably be expected to
   1-13  complete the secondary school or training program <regularly
   1-14  attending a school, college, university, or vocational or technical
   1-15  training program in accordance with standards set by the
   1-16  department>;
   1-17              (3)  who has been deprived of parental support or care
   1-18  because of the death, continued absence from home, or physical or
   1-19  mental incapacity of a parent;
   1-20              (4)  who has insufficient income or other resources to
   1-21  provide a reasonable subsistence compatible with health and
   1-22  decency; and
   1-23              (5)  who is living in the home residence of his or her
   1-24  father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister,
    2-1  stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, first
    2-2  cousin, nephew, or niece.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-8  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-9  passage, and it is so enacted.