Bill Text: TX SB2047 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to pro bono legal services for veterans and service members.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-21 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB2047 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2047-Comm_Sub.html
86R23955 YDB-F | ||
By: Zaffirini, et al. | S.B. No. 2047 | |
(Miller) | ||
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 2047: No. |
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relating to pro bono legal services for veterans and service | ||
members. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 434.017(c), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c) Money in the fund may only be appropriated to the Texas | ||
Veterans Commission. Money appropriated under this subsection | ||
shall be used to: | ||
(1) make grants to address veterans' needs; | ||
(2) make grants to provide pro bono legal services to | ||
veterans, active duty members of the United States armed forces, | ||
and members of the state military forces; | ||
(3) administer the fund; and | ||
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the federal Public Assistance Reporting Information System (PARIS) | ||
that is administered by the Administration for Children and | ||
Families of the United States Department of Health and Human | ||
Services. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 434.0171, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 434.0171. STATE EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS TO FUND FOR | ||
VETERANS' ASSISTANCE. For purposes of Subchapter I, Chapter 659: | ||
(1) the Texas Veterans Commission, for the sole | ||
purpose of managing the fund for veterans' assistance, is | ||
considered an eligible charitable organization entitled to | ||
participate in the state employee charitable campaign; and | ||
(2) a state employee is entitled to authorize a | ||
deduction for contributions to the Texas Veterans Commission for | ||
the purposes of managing the fund for veterans' assistance as a | ||
charitable contribution under Section 659.132, and the Texas | ||
Veterans Commission may use the contributions for the purposes | ||
listed in Section 434.017(c)[ |
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SECTION 3. Section 434.154(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) The council may, by majority vote, establish the | ||
following coordinating workgroups to focus on specific issues | ||
affecting veterans, servicemembers, and their families: | ||
(1) health; | ||
(2) mental health; | ||
(3) employment; | ||
(4) higher education; | ||
(5) criminal justice; | ||
(6) housing; | ||
(7) transportation; | ||
(8) women veterans; | ||
(9) pro bono legal services for veterans, including | ||
opportunities and obstacles for providing those services; and | ||
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considered necessary. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |