AN ACT

 1-1     relating to continued participation by certain AFDC recipients in

 1-2     the jobs opportunities and basic skills (JOBS) training program.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 31.012, Human Resources Code, is amended

 1-5     by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

 1-6           (e)  The department shall allow a person who is participating

 1-7     in work or employment activities under this section to complete

 1-8     those activities if the person becomes ineligible to receive

 1-9     financial assistance under this chapter because the person receives

1-10     child support in an amount that makes the person ineligible for

1-11     that assistance.  The department shall provide to the person

1-12     necessary child care services until the date on which the person

1-13     completes work or employment activities under this section.

1-14           SECTION 2.  If before implementing any provision of

1-15     Subsection (e), Section 31.012, Human Resources Code, as added by

1-16     this Act, a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization

1-17     from a federal agency is necessary for implementation, the agency

1-18     shall request the waiver or authorization and may delay

1-19     implementing that provision until the waiver or authorization is

1-20     granted.

1-21           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-22     applies only to a person who receives financial assistance under

1-23     Chapter 31, Human Resources Code, on or after that date, regardless

 2-1     of the date on which eligibility for that assistance was

 2-2     determined.

 2-3           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 58 passed the Senate on

         February 12, 1997, by a viva-voce vote.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 58 passed the House on

         May 21, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor