By Brown                                               S.B. No. 216
       74R1421 MLR-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to requiring certain AFDC recipients to attend certain
    1-3  training programs.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 31.0135, Human Resources Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 31.0135.  <PARENTING SKILLS> TRAINING PROGRAM.  (a)  The
    1-8  department, in cooperation with the Central Education Agency, by
    1-9  rule shall develop a <parenting skills> training program to assist
   1-10  a person who receives <recipient of> assistance on behalf of a
   1-11  dependent child under this chapter, including a child who receives
   1-12  assistance on behalf of a dependent child.
   1-13        (b)  In adopting rules under this section, the <The>
   1-14  department shall:
   1-15              (1)  ensure that the program provides training to a
   1-16  participant in:
   1-17                    (A)  parenting skills;
   1-18                    (B)  job-seeking skills;
   1-19                    (C)  proper hygiene; and
   1-20                    (D)  other skills the department determines are
   1-21  necessary;
   1-22              (2)  set the conditions under which a person is excused
   1-23  from attending the training;
   1-24              (3)  require as a condition of eligibility under this
    2-1  chapter that a person who is not excused under Subdivision (2)
    2-2  attend the training; and
    2-3              (4)  require that a child who is in school and who is
    2-4  receiving assistance under this chapter on behalf of a dependent
    2-5  child attend the <receive parenting skills> training.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  If before implementing Section 31.0135, Human
    2-7  Resources Code, as amended by this Act, the Texas Department of
    2-8  Human Services determines that a waiver or authorization from a
    2-9  federal agency is necessary for implementation, the department
   2-10  shall request the waiver or authorization and may delay
   2-11  implementing that section until the waiver or authorization is
   2-12  granted.
   2-13        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.  The
   2-14  changes in law made by Section 31.0135, Human Resources Code, as
   2-15  amended by this Act, apply only to a person who becomes eligible to
   2-16  receive financial assistance under Chapter 31, Human Resources
   2-17  Code, on or after that date.
   2-18        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.