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1		-	84R22077 JSL-D
2		-	By: Uresti, et al. S.B. No. 169
3		-	(King of Taylor)
4		-	Substitute the following for S.B. No. 169: No.
	1	+	S.B. No. 169
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7		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	4		AN ACT
9	5		relating to ensuring that certain military members and their
10	6		spouses and dependents maintain their positions on interest lists
11	7		or other waiting lists for certain health and human services
12	8		assistance programs.
13	9		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	10		SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is
15	11		amended by adding Section 531.0931 to read as follows:
16	12		Sec. 531.0931. INTEREST LIST OR OTHER WAITING LIST RULES
17	13		FOR CERTAIN MILITARY MEMBERS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS. (a) In this
18	14		section, "military member" means a member of the United States
19	15		military serving in the army, navy, air force, marine corps, or
20	16		coast guard on active duty.
21	17		(b) This section applies only to:
22	18		(1) a military member who has declared and maintains
23	19		this state as the member's state of legal residence in the manner
24	20		provided by the applicable military branch, or a spouse or
25	21		dependent child of the member; or
26	22		(2) the spouse or dependent child of a former military
27	23		member who had declared and maintained this state as the member's
28	24		state of legal residence in the manner provided by the applicable
29	25		military branch and who:
30	26		(A) was killed in action; or
31	27		(B) died while in service.
32	28		(c) The executive commissioner by rule shall require the
33	29		commission or another health and human services agency to:
34	30		(1) maintain the position of a person subject to this
35	31		section in the queue of an interest list or other waiting list for
36	32		any assistance program, including a Section 1915(c) waiver program,
37	33		provided by the commission or other health and human services
38	34		agency, if the person cannot receive benefits under the assistance
39	35		program because the person temporarily resides out of state as the
40	36		result of military service; and
41	37		(2) subject to Subsection (e), offer benefits to the
42	38		person according to the person's position on the interest list or
43	39		other waiting list that was attained while the person resided out of
44	40		state if the person returns to reside in this state.
45	41		(d) If a person subject to this section reaches a position
46	42		on an interest list or other waiting list that would allow the
47	43		person to receive benefits under an assistance program but the
48	44		person cannot receive the benefits because the person temporarily
49	45		resides out of state as the result of military service, the
50	46		commission or agency providing the benefits shall maintain the
51	47		person's position on the list relative to other persons on the list
52	48		but continue to offer benefits to other persons on the interest list
53	49		or other waiting list in accordance with those persons' respective
54	50		positions on the list.
55	51		(e) In adopting rules under Subsection (c), the executive
56	52		commissioner must limit the amount of time a person may maintain the
57	53		person's position on an interest list or other waiting list under
58	54		Subsection (c) to not more than one year after the date on which, as
59	55		applicable:
60	56		(1) the member's active duty ends;
61	57		(2) the member was killed if the member was killed in
62	58		action; or
63	59		(3) the member died if the member died while in
64	60		service.
65	61		SECTION 2. The executive commissioner of the Health and
66	62		Human Services Commission shall adopt the rules necessary to
67	63		implement Section 531.0931, Government Code, as added by this Act,
68	64		not later than December 1, 2015.
69	65		SECTION 3. If before implementing any provision of this Act
70	66		a state agency determines that a waiver, an amendment to an existing
71	67		waiver, or another authorization from a federal agency is necessary
72	68		for implementation of that provision, the agency affected by the
73	69		provision shall request the waiver, amendment to the existing
74	70		waiver, or other authorization and may delay implementing that
75	71		provision until the waiver, amendment, or authorization is granted.
76	72		SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
77	73		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
78	74		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
79	75		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
80	76		Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
	77	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	78	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	79	+	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 169 passed the Senate on
	80	+	March 30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
	81	+	the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 22, 2015, by the
	82	+	following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	83	+	______________________________
	84	+	Secretary of the Senate
	85	+	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 169 passed the House, with
	86	+	amendment, on May 19, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 144,
	87	+	Nays 0, one present not voting.
	88	+	______________________________
	89	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	90	+	Approved:
	91	+	______________________________
	92	+	Date
	93	+	______________________________
	94	+	Governor