1-1 By: Zaffirini, Ellis S.B. No. 57
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed November 12, 1996; January 14, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
1-4 Services; February 5, 1997, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; February 5, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to participation of certain AFDC recipients in the job
1-9 opportunities and basic skills (JOBS) training program.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 31.012, Human Resources
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (c) A person who is the caretaker of a physically or
1-14 mentally disabled child who requires the caretaker's presence is
1-15 not required to participate in a program under this section.
1-16 Effective September 1, 1995, a person is not required to
1-17 participate in a program under this section until the person's
1-18 youngest child at the time the person first became eligible for
1-19 assistance reaches the age of five. Effective September 1, 1997, a
1-20 person is exempt until the person's youngest child at the time the
1-21 person first became eligible for assistance reaches the age of
1-22 four. Notwithstanding Sections 31.0035(b) and 32.0255(b), the
1-23 department shall provide to a person who is exempt under this
1-24 subsection and who voluntarily participates [volunteers to
1-25 participate] in a program under Subsection (a)(2) six months of
1-26 transitional benefits in addition to the applicable limit
1-27 prescribed by Section 31.0065.
1-28 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-29 applies only to a person who receives financial assistance under
1-30 Chapter 31, Human Resources Code, on or after that date, regardless
1-31 of the date on which eligibility for that assistance was
1-32 determined.
1-33 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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