By Zaffirini                                            S.B. No. 58

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to continued participation by certain AFDC recipients in

 1-3     the jobs opportunities and basic skills (JOBS) training program.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 31.012, Human Resources Code, is amended

 1-6     by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

 1-7           (e)  The department shall allow a person who is participating

 1-8     in work or employment activities under this section to complete

 1-9     those activities if the person becomes ineligible to receive

1-10     financial assistance under this chapter because the person receives

1-11     child support in an amount that makes the person ineligible for

1-12     that assistance.  The department shall provide to the person

1-13     necessary child care services until the  date on which the person

1-14     completes work or employment activities under this section.

1-15           SECTION 2.  If before implementing any provision of Section

1-16     31.012(e), Human Resources Code, as added by this Act, a state

1-17     agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a federal

1-18     agency is necessary for implementation, the agency shall request

1-19     the waiver or authorization and may delay implementing that

1-20     provision until the waiver or authorization is 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

1-24     of the date on which eligibility for that assistance was

 2-1     determined.

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

 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.