Bill Text: TX HB5461 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to eligibility for supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits following certain parental truancy convictions.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-14 - No action taken in subcommittee [HB5461 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB5461-Introduced.html
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| By: Kerwin | H.B. No. 5461 | |
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| relating to eligibility for supplemental nutrition assistance | ||
| program benefits following certain parental truancy convictions. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 25.093, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (h-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (h-1) If the defendant is a recipient of supplemental | ||
| nutrition assistance program benefits, the court in which a | ||
| conviction, deferred adjudication, or deferred disposition for an | ||
| offense under Subsection (a) occurs shall provide the defendant a | ||
| written warning that advises the defendant of the collateral | ||
| consequences under Section 33.018(d), Human Resources Code, that | ||
| are associated with a second or subsequent conviction under | ||
| Subsection (a). The executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission shall prescribe the form and contents of the | ||
| written warning required under this subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 33.018, Human Resources Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding any other law, if a person who is | ||
| receiving supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits is | ||
| convicted of an offense under Section 25.093(a), Education Code, | ||
| the person's supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits | ||
| shall be reduced in the following manner: | ||
| (1) if the person is convicted two times of an offense | ||
| under Section 25.093(a), Education Code, the person is eligible to | ||
| receive a monthly benefit allotment equal to only 75 percent of the | ||
| monthly benefit allotment the person was determined eligible for | ||
| under the supplemental nutrition assistance program; | ||
| (2) if the person is convicted three times of an | ||
| offense under Section 25.093(a), Education Code, the person is | ||
| eligible to receive a monthly benefit equal to only 50 percent of | ||
| the monthly benefit allotment the person was determined eligible | ||
| for under the supplemental nutrition assistance program; and | ||
| (3) if the person is convicted four or more times of an | ||
| offense under Section 25.093(a), Education Code, the person is | ||
| ineligible for the supplemental nutrition assistance program. | ||
| 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. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
| offense committed before the effective date of this Act is governed | ||
| by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of | ||
| this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of | ||
| this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
