By: West  S.B. No. 1042
         (In the Senate - Filed March 1, 2007; March 14, 2007, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;
  April 16, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
  Nays 0; April 16, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to providing supplemental financial assistance to certain
  grandparents.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 31.0041, Human Resources
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (b)  Supplemental financial assistance provided to a person
  under this section may include one or more cash payments, not to
  exceed a total of $1,500 [$1,000], after determination of
  eligibility for supplemental financial assistance under this
  section.
         SECTION 2.  If before implementing any provision of this Act
  a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a
  federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision,
  the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or
  authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the
  waiver or authorization is granted.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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