By Mowery H.B. No. 1671 74R4438 MLR-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to eligibility for AFDC benefits. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 31, Human Resources Code, 1-5 is amended by adding Section 31.0031 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 31.0031. DEPENDENT CHILD'S INCOME. The department may 1-7 not consider any income earned by a dependent child who is 1-8 attending school and whose income is derived from the child's 1-9 part-time employment for purposes of determining: 1-10 (1) the amount of financial assistance granted to an 1-11 individual under this chapter for the support of dependent 1-12 children; or 1-13 (2) whether the family meets household income and 1-14 resource requirements for eligibility for financial assistance 1-15 under this chapter. 1-16 SECTION 2. If before implementing Section 31.0031, Human 1-17 Resources Code, as added by this Act, the Texas Department of Human 1-18 Services determines that a waiver or authorization from a federal 1-19 agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, the 1-20 department shall request the waiver and may delay implementing that 1-21 provision until the waiver or authorization is granted. 1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and 1-23 applies to income earned by the dependent child of an individual 1-24 who receives financial assistance under Chapter 31, Human Resources 2-1 Code, on or after the effective date of this Act, regardless of the 2-2 date on which eligibility for that assistance was determined. 2-3 SECTION 4. 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.