By Solis H.B. No. 2483 75R6592 MCK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the requirement that certain persons required to pay 1-3 child support participate in job training. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 231, Family Code, is 1-6 amended to conform to Section 5.02, Chapter 655, Acts of the 74th 1-7 Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, by adding Section 231.115 to 1-8 read as follows: 1-9 Sec. 231.115. UNEMPLOYED NONCUSTODIAL PARENTS. (a) The 1-10 Title IV-D agency shall refer to appropriate state and local 1-11 entities that assist unemployed noncustodial parents in gaining 1-12 employment any unemployed noncustodial parent who is in arrears in 1-13 court-ordered child support payments to a child who: 1-14 (1) receives financial assistance under Chapter 31, 1-15 Human Resources Code; or 1-16 (2) is otherwise eligible to receive financial 1-17 assistance under Chapter 31, Human Resources Code, and for whom the 1-18 Department of Protective and Regulatory Services is providing 1-19 substitute care. 1-20 (b) A referral under Subsection (a) may include: 1-21 (1) skills training and job placement through: 1-22 (A) the Texas Workforce Commission; or 1-23 (B) the agency responsible for the food stamp 1-24 employment and training program (7 U.S.C. Section 2015(d)); 2-1 (2) referrals to education and literacy classes; and 2-2 (3) counseling regarding: 2-3 (A) substance abuse; 2-4 (B) parenting skills; 2-5 (C) life skills; and 2-6 (D) mediation techniques. 2-7 (c) The Title IV-D agency shall require an unemployed 2-8 noncustodial parent to complete the training, classes, or 2-9 counseling the parent is referred to under this section. The 2-10 agency shall suspend under Chapter 232 the license of a parent who 2-11 fails to comply with the requirements of this subsection. 2-12 SECTION 2. Section 76.012, Human Resources Code, as added by 2-13 Section 5.02, Chapter 655, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular 2-14 Session, 1995, is repealed to conform to the transfer of Chapter 2-15 76, Human Resources Code, to the Family Code by Chapter 20, Acts of 2-16 the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995. 2-17 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 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.