By:  Linebarger                                        H.B. No. 872
       73R4060 CAS-F
                                 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 paying reasonable costs of
    2-5  administration and monitoring contractors, planning, development,
    2-6  establishment, expansion, or improvement of child care services and
    2-7  reasonable start-up costs.  The percentage of any federal allotment
    2-8  in the fund that may be used to pay administrative costs is
    2-9  governed by federal law.  The clearinghouse <department of housing
   2-10  and community affairs> shall administer the fund with the advice of
   2-11  the Central Education Agency.  The clearinghouse <department of
   2-12  housing and community affairs> by rule shall establish procedures
   2-13  and eligibility requirements for distributing money from the fund.
   2-14  Subject to the eligibility requirements established by rule, the
   2-15  clearinghouse <department of housing and community affairs> may
   2-16  distribute money from the fund to any school district.  The
   2-17  clearinghouse <department of housing and community affairs> may
   2-18  distribute money appropriated from the fund to pay all or part of
   2-19  the fees charged for providing services to students who have been
   2-20  identified as potential dropouts.  The clearinghouse <department of
   2-21  housing and community affairs> shall assist school districts in the
   2-22  development and evaluation of child care services.
   2-23        SECTION 2.  (a)  Any records in the custody of the Texas
   2-24  Department of Housing and Community Affairs on September 1, 1993,
   2-25  for the purpose of administering duties under Section 21.932,
   2-26  Education Code, and any personnel or property in the department's
   2-27  custody on that date primarily for the purpose of administering
    3-1  duties under that section are transferred to the Work and Family
    3-2  Policies Clearinghouse.
    3-3        (b)  Any appropriations for the fiscal biennium ending August
    3-4  31, 1995, made to the Texas Department of Housing and Community
    3-5  Affairs for the purpose of administering duties under Section
    3-6  21.932, Education Code, are transferred to the Work and Family
    3-7  Policies Clearinghouse for the same purpose.
    3-8        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    3-9        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   3-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   3-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   3-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   3-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.