S.B. No. 1677         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.             ______________________________ ______________________________      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