Bill Text: TX SB1677 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to information about services for women veterans provided through certain state agency applications.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB1677 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1677-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1677 | ||
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| relating to information about services for women veterans provided | ||
| through certain state agency applications. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 434, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 434.212 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 434.212. APPLICATION FOR STATE AGENCY PROGRAMS, | ||
| SERVICES, OR ASSISTANCE. (a) This section applies to a state | ||
| agency in the executive branch of state government, including a | ||
| health and human services agency, that provides to adult women in | ||
| this state a program, a service, or assistance, including the | ||
| Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, the supplemental | ||
| nutrition assistance program, the women's health program, | ||
| Medicaid, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, | ||
| Infants, and Children, and a housing program or service or housing | ||
| assistance. | ||
| (b) A state agency shall include in each application for a | ||
| program, a service, or assistance provided by the agency to adult | ||
| women: | ||
| (1) a space to indicate whether the applicant is a | ||
| veteran; and | ||
| (2) model language informing the applicant that she | ||
| may be entitled to additional services because of her veteran | ||
| status. | ||
| (c) The commission shall develop the model language | ||
| required on an application under Subsection (b)(2). The language | ||
| must include a link to the veterans website established under | ||
| Section 434.102 or, for an online application, a hyperlink to that | ||
| website. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Not later than December 1, 2017, the Texas | ||
| Veterans Commission shall develop the model application language | ||
| required by Section 434.212, Government Code, as added by this Act, | ||
| and post that information on the commission's Internet website. | ||
| (b) Not later than March 1, 2018, each state agency subject | ||
| to Section 434.212, Government Code, as added by this Act, shall | ||
| modify the agency's application for programs, services, or | ||
| assistance as necessary to implement that section. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1677 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 1, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1677 passed the House on | ||
| May 23, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 12, three | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
