1-1 By: Linebarger (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 872
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 5, 1993;
1-3 April 5, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 6, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 6, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to child care for public school students.
1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23 SECTION 1. Sections 21.932(c) and (d), Education Code, are
1-24 amended to read as follows:
1-25 (c) The district shall effectively publicize the hearings
1-26 and hold all the hearings before the start of the school year. The
1-27 Work and Family Policies Clearinghouse in the Texas Employment
1-28 Commission <Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs>, not
1-29 later than May 1 of each year, shall distribute to each school
1-30 district described in Subsection (b) of this section information
1-31 that describes model school-age child care programs and explains
1-32 how a school district may obtain funds through the federal
1-33 Dependent Care Development Grant program or other grant programs
1-34 <that are administered by the department of housing and community
1-35 affairs>. A school district shall distribute the information
1-36 received from the clearinghouse <department of housing and
1-37 community affairs> to the public at a hearing.
1-38 (d) The school child care services fund is established in
1-39 the state treasury. The fund consists of money appropriated to the
1-40 fund, of transfers made under Subsection (e) of this section, and
1-41 of gifts, grants, or donations to the fund. The clearinghouse
1-42 <department of housing and community affairs> may apply for and
1-43 accept gifts, grants, and donations for that purpose. The fund
1-44 shall be used to pay the costs of implementing school-age child
1-45 care before and after the school day and during school holidays and
1-46 vacations for a school district's school-age students. Eligible
1-47 use of funds shall include planning, development, establishment,
1-48 expansion, or improvement of child care services and reasonable
1-49 start-up costs. The clearinghouse <department of housing and
1-50 community affairs> shall administer the fund with the advice of the
1-51 Central Education Agency. The clearinghouse <department of housing
1-52 and community affairs> by rule shall establish procedures and
1-53 eligibility requirements for distributing money from the fund.
1-54 Subject to the eligibility requirements established by rule, the
1-55 clearinghouse <department of housing and community affairs> may
1-56 distribute money from the fund to any school district. The
1-57 clearinghouse <department of housing and community affairs> may
1-58 distribute money appropriated from the fund to pay all or part of
1-59 the fees charged for providing services to students who have been
1-60 identified as potential dropouts. The clearinghouse <department of
1-61 housing and community affairs> shall assist school districts in the
1-62 development and evaluation of child care services.
1-63 SECTION 2. (a) Any records in the custody of the Texas
1-64 Department of Housing and Community Affairs on September 1, 1993,
1-65 for the purpose of administering duties under Section 21.932,
1-66 Education Code, and any personnel or property in the department's
1-67 custody on that date primarily for the purpose of administering
1-68 duties under that section are transferred to the Work and Family
2-1 Policies Clearinghouse.
2-2 (b) Any appropriations for the fiscal biennium ending August
2-3 31, 1995, made to the Texas Department of Housing and Community
2-4 Affairs for the purpose of administering duties under Section
2-5 21.932, Education Code, are transferred to the Work and Family
2-6 Policies Clearinghouse for the same purpose.
2-7 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-8 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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2-14 Austin,
2-15 Texas
2-16 May 6, 1993
2-17 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-18 President of the Senate
2-19 Sir:
2-20 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred H.B. No. 872,
2-21 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-22 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-23 pass and be printed.
2-24 Ratliff,
2-25 Chairman
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2-27 WITNESSES
2-28 FOR AGAINST ON
2-29 ___________________________________________________________________
2-30 Name: Peggy Roice x
2-31 Representing: United Way of Texas
2-32 City: Austin
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2-34 Name: Diana Flowers x
2-35 Representing: Self
2-36 City: Dallas
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2-38 Name: Virginia Lobo Somyak x
2-39 Representing: Children's Legislative Links
2-40 City: Austin
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