By Stiles H.B. No. 1341
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the operation and funding of the Work and Family
1-3 Policies Clearinghouse.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 191.0045(d) and (f), Health and Safety
1-6 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (d) A local registrar who issues a certified copy of a birth
1-8 or death certificate shall charge the same fees <fee> as charged by
1-9 the bureau of vital statistics, including the additional fee
1-10 required under Subsection (e).
1-11 (f) The fees collected under Subsection (e) shall be
1-12 deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the work and
1-13 family policies fund. Money in the fund may be used only for the
1-14 purposes prescribed by Section 81.006, Labor Code <4, Article
1-15 5221g-1, Revised Statutes>.
1-16 SECTION 2. Section 191.022, Health and Safety Code, is
1-17 amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-18 (f) A local registrar who collects a fee for a certified
1-19 copy of a birth certificate shall deduct 20 cents of that fee to
1-20 apply to the registrar's administrative costs and remit $1.80 of
1-21 that fee to the comptroller for deposit in the work and family
1-22 policies fund.
1-23 SECTION 3. Section 118.015, Local Government Code, is
1-24 amended to read as follows:
2-1 Sec. 118.015. Birth or Death Certificate. (a) The fee for
2-2 "Birth or Death Certificate" under Section 118.011 is for issuing a
2-3 certified copy of a birth certificate or death certificate and is
2-4 the same as the fee charged under Subchapter C, Chapter 191, Health
2-5 and Safety Code, by the state registrar of vital statistics and the
2-6 local registrar of births and deaths.
2-7 (b) A county clerk who collects a fee under this section for
2-8 a certified copy of a birth certificate shall deduct 20 cents of
2-9 that fee to apply to the clerk's administrative costs and remit
2-10 $1.80 of that fee to the comptroller for deposit in the work and
2-11 family policies fund.
2-12 SECTION 4. Chapter 81, Labor Code, is amended by adding
2-13 Section 81.0045 to read as follows:
2-14 Sec. 81.0045. DEPENDENT CARE GRANT PROGRAM. (a) The
2-15 clearinghouse may establish a grant program to provide funds to
2-16 public or private persons to conduct demonstration dependent care
2-17 projects.
2-18 (b) The clearinghouse shall adopt rules governing the
2-19 submission and approval of grant requests and the cancellation of
2-20 grants.
2-21 (c) To receive a grant, a person whose grant is approved
2-22 must execute an interagency agreement or a contract with the
2-23 clearinghouse. The contract must require the person receiving the
2-24 grant to perform the services as stated in the approved grant
2-25 request. The contract must contain appropriate provisions for
2-26 program and fiscal monitoring.
2-27 SECTION 5. Section 81.006(a), Labor Code, is amended to read
3-1 as follows:
3-2 (a) The work and family policies fund is in the state
3-3 treasury. Money in the fund is derived from fees deposited as
3-4 required by Sections <Section> 191.0045 and 191.022(f), Health and
3-5 Safety Code, and Section 118.015(b), Local Government Code, and may
3-6 be used only for:
3-7 (1) the operation of the clearinghouse;
3-8 (2) research conducted by the clearinghouse under
3-9 Section 81.004; and
3-10 (3) other uses specifically authorized by law.
3-11 SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
3-12 applies only to fees collected for a birth certificate on or after
3-13 that date.
3-14 SECTION 7. The importance of this legislation and the
3-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.