1-1     By:  Zaffirini                                          S.B. No. 48
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed November 13, 2000; January 10, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
 1-4     Services; February 26, 2001, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; February 26, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to sanctions imposed on recipients of temporary assistance
 1-9     for needy families for failure to provide certain information.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 31.0032, Human Resources Code, is amended
1-12     by amending Subsection (a)  and adding Subsection (d) to read as
1-13     follows:
1-14           (a)  Except as provided by Section 231.115, Family Code, [as
1-15     added by Chapter 911, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular
1-16     Session, 1997,] if after an investigation the department or the
1-17     Title IV-D agency determines that a person is not complying with a
1-18     requirement of the responsibility agreement required under Section
1-19     31.0031, the department immediately shall apply appropriate
1-20     sanctions or penalties regarding the assistance provided to or for
1-21     that person under this chapter.
1-22           (d)  The department's rules for the imposition of sanctions
1-23     or penalties on a person for whom the Title IV-D agency has made a
1-24     noncompliance determination under Section 231.115, Family Code,
1-25     must provide for the deduction of not less than 25 percent of the
1-26     amount of assistance that would otherwise be provided to the
1-27     person's family if the family consists of:
1-28                 (1)  at least six persons if the family is a two-parent
1-29     family; or
1-30                 (2)  at least seven persons if the family is a
1-31     single-parent family.
1-32           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and
1-33     applies only to a sanction or penalty imposed for a noncompliance
1-34     determination received by the Texas Department of Human Services on
1-35     or after that date.  A noncompliance determination received by the
1-36     department before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
1-37     law in effect on the date the determination was received, and the
1-38     former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
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