By Zaffirini S.B. No. 58 75R816 CLG-D 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.