1-1           By:  Zaffirini, Ellis                             S.B. No. 58

 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 continued participation by certain AFDC recipients in

 1-9     the jobs opportunities and basic skills (JOBS) training program.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 31.012, Human Resources Code, is amended

1-12     by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

1-13           (e)  The department shall allow a person who is participating

1-14     in work or employment activities under this section to complete

1-15     those activities if the person becomes ineligible to receive

1-16     financial assistance under this chapter because the person receives

1-17     child support in an amount that makes the person ineligible for

1-18     that assistance.  The department shall provide to the person

1-19     necessary child care services until the date on which the person

1-20     completes work or employment activities under this section.

1-21           SECTION 2.  If before implementing any provision of

1-22     Subsection (e), Section 31.012, Human Resources Code, as added by

1-23     this Act, a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization

1-24     from a federal agency is necessary for implementation, the agency

1-25     shall request the waiver or authorization and may delay

1-26     implementing that provision until the waiver or authorization is

1-27     granted.

1-28           SECTION 3.  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 4.  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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