73R6705 CAS-F
By Linebarger H.B. No. 872
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 872:
By Dear C.S.H.B. No. 872
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to child care for public school students.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 21.932(c) and (d), Education Code, are
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (c) The district shall effectively publicize the hearings
1-7 and hold all the hearings before the start of the school year. The
1-8 Work and Family Policies Clearinghouse in the Texas Employment
1-9 Commission <Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs>, not
1-10 later than May 1 of each year, shall distribute to each school
1-11 district described in Subsection (b) of this section information
1-12 that describes model school-age child care programs and explains
1-13 how a school district may obtain funds through the federal
1-14 Dependent Care Development Grant program or other grant programs
1-15 <that are administered by the department of housing and community
1-16 affairs>. A school district shall distribute the information
1-17 received from the clearinghouse <department of housing and
1-18 community affairs> to the public at a hearing.
1-19 (d) The school child care services fund is established in
1-20 the state treasury. The fund consists of money appropriated to the
1-21 fund, of transfers made under Subsection (e) of this section, and
1-22 of gifts, grants, or donations to the fund. The clearinghouse
1-23 <department of housing and community affairs> may apply for and
1-24 accept gifts, grants, and donations for that purpose. The fund
2-1 shall be used to pay the costs of implementing school-age child
2-2 care before and after the school day and during school holidays and
2-3 vacations for a school district's school-age students. Eligible
2-4 use of funds shall include planning, development, establishment,
2-5 expansion, or improvement of child care services and reasonable
2-6 start-up costs. The clearinghouse <department of housing and
2-7 community affairs> shall administer the fund with the advice of the
2-8 Central Education Agency. The clearinghouse <department of housing
2-9 and community affairs> by rule shall establish procedures and
2-10 eligibility requirements for distributing money from the fund.
2-11 Subject to the eligibility requirements established by rule, the
2-12 clearinghouse <department of housing and community affairs> may
2-13 distribute money from the fund to any school district. The
2-14 clearinghouse <department of housing and community affairs> may
2-15 distribute money appropriated from the fund to pay all or part of
2-16 the fees charged for providing services to students who have been
2-17 identified as potential dropouts. The clearinghouse <department of
2-18 housing and community affairs> shall assist school districts in the
2-19 development and evaluation of child care services.
2-20 SECTION 2. (a) Any records in the custody of the Texas
2-21 Department of Housing and Community Affairs on September 1, 1993,
2-22 for the purpose of administering duties under Section 21.932,
2-23 Education Code, and any personnel or property in the department's
2-24 custody on that date primarily for the purpose of administering
2-25 duties under that section are transferred to the Work and Family
2-26 Policies Clearinghouse.
2-27 (b) Any appropriations for the fiscal biennium ending August
3-1 31, 1995, made to the Texas Department of Housing and Community
3-2 Affairs for the purpose of administering duties under Section
3-3 21.932, Education Code, are transferred to the Work and Family
3-4 Policies Clearinghouse for the same purpose.
3-5 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
3-6 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.