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.