By Brown S.B. No. 348 74R3655 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 one year 1-12 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.