Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 1391 requires the Texas Workforce Commission, in consultation with local workforce development boards, to conduct a review of child-care allocation formulas to compare its current child-care funding system with a system that emphasizes providing funding to areas with the greatest need for child-care services. An area's need must be evaluated according to the number of children who are under the age of 14 and who live in poverty, participate in poverty-based programs, and are members of families eligible for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, food stamps, or Medicaid. The commission is required to determine which local workforce development areas have the greatest need for child-care services and how child-care resources are currently distributed in those areas; to propose alternative allocation methods; and to identify other programs under its jurisdiction that do not take poverty-based measures into consideration.