Bill Text: TX HB3859 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to exemptions from the application of certain financial assistance eligibility requirements for certain grandparents.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-23 - Referred to Human Services [HB3859 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3859-Introduced.html
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| By: Allen | H.B. No. 3859 | |
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| relating to exemptions from the application of certain financial | ||
| assistance eligibility requirements for certain grandparents. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 31, Human Resources Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 31.0052 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 31.0052. EXEMPTIONS APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN | ||
| GRANDPARENTS. (a) This section applies only to a grandparent who is | ||
| at least 60 years of age and seeking or receiving financial | ||
| assistance benefits on behalf of a dependent child under this | ||
| subchapter or receiving supplemental financial assistance under | ||
| Section 31.0041. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, the executive | ||
| commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission by rule | ||
| shall prescribe circumstances under which good cause exists for | ||
| exempting a person to whom this section applies from the | ||
| application of certain financial assistance eligibility | ||
| requirements. Rules adopted under this section must provide that if | ||
| good cause is found: | ||
| (1) for purposes of determining the amount of | ||
| financial assistance granted to a person to whom this section | ||
| applies for the support of a dependent child or determining whether | ||
| the family meets household income and resource requirements for | ||
| financial assistance under this chapter, the department: | ||
| (A) may not consider any of the person's assets; | ||
| and | ||
| (B) shall deduct from the person's income and | ||
| resources reasonable expenses associated with supporting the | ||
| dependent child; and | ||
| (2) the department shall exempt a person to whom this | ||
| section applies from the application of time limits imposed by | ||
| Section 31.0065 on the receipt of benefits until the dependent | ||
| child's 18th birthday. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as possible after the effective date of | ||
| this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission shall adopt the rules required under Section | ||
| 31.0052, Human Resources Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply to an | ||
| initial determination or redetermination of eligibility of a person | ||
| for financial assistance under Chapter 31, Human Resources Code, | ||
| that is made on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
