1-1           By:  Zaffirini                                   S.B. No. 412

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 3, 1997; February 5, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;

 1-4     March 4, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; March 4, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 412                By:  Zaffirini

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to maximizing federal reimbursement for certain foster

1-11     care program costs.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 40, Human Resources Code,

1-14     is amended by adding Section 40.0563 to read as follows:

1-15           Sec. 40.0563.  FEDERAL REIMBURSEMENT FOR FOSTER CARE COSTS.

1-16     The department shall work with the Health and Human Services

1-17     Commission to develop methods to maximize the amount of federal

1-18     reimbursement funds received under:

1-19                 (1)  Title IV-E, Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section

1-20     670 et seq.), for administering the foster care program and for

1-21     providing child care in for-profit facilities through the foster

1-22     care program; and

1-23                 (2)  Title XIX, Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section

1-24     1396 et seq.).

1-25           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-26           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-28     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-29     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-30     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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