- (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.
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 579 (S.B. 805), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2017.