Bill Text: TX HB285 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to work requirements and employment and training services for certain persons receiving benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-05 - Considered in Calendars [HB285 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB285-Comm_Sub.html
86R16644 JG-D | |||
By: Springer | H.B. No. 285 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 285: | |||
By: Miller | C.S.H.B. No. 285 |
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relating to work requirements and employment and training services | ||
for certain persons receiving benefits under the supplemental | ||
nutrition assistance program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 33, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Sections 33.016 and 33.017 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.016. CERTAIN EXEMPTIONS FROM SNAP WORK REQUIREMENTS | ||
PROHIBITED. The commission may not: | ||
(1) request a waiver of the applicability of work | ||
requirements as authorized under 7 U.S.C. Section 2015(o)(4); or | ||
(2) provide an exemption from work requirements as | ||
authorized under 7 U.S.C. Section 2015(o)(6). | ||
Sec. 33.017. EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING SERVICES FOR CERTAIN | ||
SNAP RECIPIENTS. The commission, in conjunction with the Texas | ||
Workforce Commission, shall ensure that a person who is at least 18 | ||
years of age but younger than 50 years of age, who has no | ||
dependents, and who does not have a disability receives | ||
supplemental nutrition assistance program employment and training | ||
services unless the person is eligible for an individual waiver | ||
under the program. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
an initial determination or recertification of eligibility for the | ||
supplemental nutrition assistance program under Chapter 33, Human | ||
Resources Code, that is made on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. A determination or recertification made before the effective | ||
date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the | ||
determination or recertification was made, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |