Amend CSHB 1 as follows:
      (1) Add in Article XI, where appropriate, the following:
      Appropriation for Investments in Long Term Success Employment
Initiatives:
      The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) is hereby appropriated
additional TANF funds in the amounts of $25,000,000 for fiscal year
1998 and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1999.  Of the $25,000,000
appropriated in each year:
            1) $15,000,000 is to be used to create the
Self-Sufficiency Fund to develop training specifically for TANF
clients;
            2) $6,000,000 is to be used for job retention and
re-employment assistance to be used to break the cycling of welfare
recipients on and off welfare;and,
            3) $4,000,000 to be used for local innovation grants to
provide local job training needs, particularly in rural areas.
      In addition to the above amounts, TWC is appropriated from
TANF funds an additional $14,054,653 for fiscal year 1998 and
$17,382,801 for fiscal year 1999 to be used to provide JOBS
services to increase work participation rates to 40% in FY 1998 and
45% in FY 1999 in the all-families category.
      When possible, the services funded herein should be directed
toward JOBS participants in the two-parent category.  None of the
funds appropriated herein are to be used to create jobs for
additional state employees.