SRC-JFA S.C.R. 20 75(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.C.R. 20
By: Truan
Health & Human Services
3-10-97
As Filed


DIGEST 

Currently, the new Federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Act denies food stamps and other benefits to adults ages 18 to 50 who are
not working or are not participating in an approved work program 20 hours
per week.  Labor surplus areas of the state are those areas in which the
unemployment rates have exceeded the federal unemployment rate by at least
20 percent in the last two years.  Under federal law, a waiver of
termination of benefits is available for individuals ages 18 to 50 who
live in such areas.  This resolution would ask the support of the Congress
of the United States by requesting Congress to waive the work requirement
for food stamp recipients living in labor surplus areas in the state.      

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.C.R. 20 submits the following resolutions:

To request the United States Congress to waive the work requirement for
food stamp recipients living in labor surplus areas.  

To forward official copies of this resolution to the president of the
United States, to the speaker of the house of representatives and
president of the senate of the United States Congress, and to all members
of the Texas delegation to the congress with the request that it be
entered officially into the Congressional Record as a memorial to the
Congress of the United States of America.