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(a) In TANF, a person is disqualified from receiving benefits if the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) determines the person:(1) is a fugitive (a person fleeing to avoid prosecution or confinement for a felony criminal conviction, or found by a court to be violating federal or state probation or parole); or(2) is convicted of a felony drug offense (not deferred adjudication) in Texas or another state committed on or after April 1, 2002.(b) In SNAP, a person is disqualified from receiving benefits as follows:(1) the person is disqualified from receiving SNAP benefits if HHSC determines the person is a fugitive (a person fleeing to avoid prosecution or confinement for a felony criminal conviction, or found by a court to be violating federal or state probation or parole); or(2) the person is disqualified from receiving SNAP benefits for two years if HHSC determines the person is convicted of a felony drug offense (not deferred adjudication) in Texas or another state on or after September 1, 2015, and has violated his or her parole or community supervision; or(3) the person is disqualified from receiving SNAP benefits permanently if HHSC determines the person is convicted of a felony drug offense (not deferred adjudication) in Texas or another state on or after September 1, 2015, and, while receiving SNAP benefits, the person is convicted of a subsequent felony drug offense (not deferred adjudication) in Texas or another state.