By: Lucio, Campbell S.B. No. 1677
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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.