1-1 By: Hilderbran, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 942 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 1997; 1-3 May 12, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Health 1-4 and Human Services; May 18, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, 1-5 by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 4; May 18, 1997, sent to 1-6 printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Moncrief 1-8 Amend H.B. No. 942 in SECTION 1 of the bill by striking 1-9 proposed Section 31.0036(a), Human Resources Code (engrossed 1-10 version, page 1, lines 26-32), and substituting the following: 1-11 (a) The department may not provide financial assistance under this 1-12 chapter for the support of a child born to a recipient of the 1-13 assistance at least 10 months after the date on which the recipient 1-14 initially began receiving the assistance if the recipient has not 1-15 cooperated in establishing the paternity of the dependent child for 1-16 the purpose of enforcing child support and if the recipient already 1-17 has two or more children. 1-18 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-19 AN ACT 1-20 relating to the AFDC and Medicaid benefits to children born to AFDC 1-21 recipients. 1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-23 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 31, Human Resources Code, 1-24 is amended by adding Section 31.0036 to read as follows: 1-25 Sec. 31.0036. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR ADDITIONAL DEPENDENT 1-26 CHILDREN. (a) The department may not provide financial assistance 1-27 under this chapter for the support of a child born to a recipient 1-28 of the assistance at least 10 months after the date on which the 1-29 recipient initially began receiving the assistance if the paternity 1-30 of the dependent child has not been established for the purpose of 1-31 enforcing child support and if the recipient already has two or 1-32 more children. 1-33 (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a child born to a 1-34 recipient who reapplies for financial assistance after not 1-35 receiving the assistance for the 12 consecutive months preceding 1-36 the date of the reapplication. 1-37 (c) If an adult recipient of financial assistance becomes 1-38 the parent of another child while the recipient is receiving the 1-39 assistance, the department, in computing the amount of the 1-40 financial assistance for the support of the family, shall: 1-41 (1) deduct the earned income disregards allowable 1-42 under federal law; and 1-43 (2) increase the amount of the earned income disregard 1-44 for an employed recipient in an amount that equals 50 percent of 1-45 the amount granted under Section 31.003, adjusted for family size. 1-46 (d) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the state shall provide 1-47 to the latter-born child: 1-48 (1) child care and other support services provided 1-49 under this chapter to a dependent child; and 1-50 (2) medical assistance under the state Medicaid 1-51 program. 1-52 SECTION 2. If before implementing Section 31.0036, Human 1-53 Resources, as added by this Act, the Texas Department of Human 1-54 Services determines that a waiver or authorization from a federal 1-55 agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, the 1-56 department shall request the waiver and may delay implementing that 1-57 provision until the waiver or authorization is granted. 1-58 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-59 applies only to a child born on or after July 1, 1998, to a 1-60 recipient of financial assistance under Chapter 31, Human Resources 1-61 Code, who, on behalf of another child born to the recipient, 1-62 receives the assistance on or after the effective date of this Act, 1-63 regardless of the date on which eligibility for that assistance was 1-64 determined. 2-1 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 2-6 * * * * *