By Talton                                              H.B. No. 912
       74R1650 CLG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to participation of certain AFDC recipients in the job
    1-3  opportunities and basic skills (JOBS) training program.
    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 31.0123 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 31.0123.  EXEMPTION FROM JOBS TRAINING PROGRAM.  The
    1-8  department, in accordance with federal law governing the job
    1-9  opportunities and basic skills (JOBS) training program under Part
   1-10  F, Subchapter IV, Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section 682),
   1-11  shall exempt a caretaker of a dependent child younger than two
   1-12  years of age from participation in a JOBS component required by the
   1-13  department.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-15  applies only to a person who receives financial assistance under
   1-16  Chapter 31, Human Resources Code, on or after that date, regardless
   1-17  of the date on which eligibility for that assistance was
   1-18  determined.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.