1-1 By: Shelley S.B. No. 284
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 8, 1993; February 9, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
1-4 Services; February 23, 1993, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; February 23, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Zaffirini x
1-9 Ellis x
1-10 Madla x
1-11 Moncrief x
1-12 Nelson x
1-13 Patterson x
1-14 Shelley x
1-15 Truan x
1-16 Wentworth x
1-17 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-18 AN ACT
1-19 relating to the definition of a dependent child for the purpose of
1-20 eligibility for AFDC.
1-21 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-22 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 31.002, Human Resources
1-23 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-24 (a) In this chapter, the term "dependent child" applies to a
1-25 child:
1-26 (1) who is a resident of this state;
1-27 (2) who is under 18 years of age or is under 19 <21>
1-28 years of age and is a full-time student in a secondary school or at
1-29 the equivalent level of vocational or technical training if, before
1-30 the child's 19th birthday, the child may reasonably be expected to
1-31 complete the secondary school or training program <regularly
1-32 attending a school, college, university, or vocational or technical
1-33 training program in accordance with standards set by the
1-34 department>;
1-35 (3) who has been deprived of parental support or care
1-36 because of the death, continued absence from home, or physical or
1-37 mental incapacity of a parent;
1-38 (4) who has insufficient income or other resources to
1-39 provide a reasonable subsistence compatible with health and
1-40 decency; and
1-41 (5) who is living in the home residence of his or her
1-42 father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister,
1-43 stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, first
1-44 cousin, nephew, or niece.
1-45 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-46 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-47 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-48 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-49 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-50 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-51 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-52 * * * * *
1-53 Austin,
1-54 Texas
1-55 February 23,
1-56 1993
1-57 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-58 President of the Senate
1-59 Sir:
1-60 We, your Committee on Health and Human Services to which was
1-61 referred S.B. No. 284, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-62 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-63 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
1-64 Zaffirini,
1-65 Chair
1-66 * * * * *
1-67 WITNESSES
1-68 FOR AGAINST ON
2-1 ___________________________________________________________________
2-2 Name: Judy Denton x
2-3 Representing: TX Dept. of Human Services
2-4 City: Austin
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