By: Zaffirini, Ellis, Truan S.B. No. 58 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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.