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.