By:  Shelley                                           S.B. No. 284
       73R2086 MLR-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the definition of a dependent child for the purpose of
    1-3  eligibility for AFDC.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 31.002(a), Human Resources Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  In this chapter, the term "dependent child" applies to a
    1-8  child:
    1-9              (1)  who is a resident of this state;
   1-10              (2)  who is under 18 years of age or is under 19 <21>
   1-11  years of age and is a full-time student in a secondary school, or
   1-12  the equivalent level of vocational or technical training, if,
   1-13  before the child's 19th birthday, the child may reasonably be
   1-14  expected to complete the secondary school or training program
   1-15  <regularly attending a school, college, university, or vocational
   1-16  or technical training program in accordance with standards set by
   1-17  the department>;
   1-18              (3)  who has been deprived of parental support or care
   1-19  because of the death, continued absence from home, or physical or
   1-20  mental incapacity of a parent;
   1-21              (4)  who has insufficient income or other resources to
   1-22  provide a reasonable subsistence compatible with health and
   1-23  decency; and
   1-24              (5)  who is living in the home residence of his or her
    2-1  father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister,
    2-2  stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, first
    2-3  cousin, nephew, or niece.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.