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. 1-38 * * * * *