By Coleman, Greenberg H.B. No. 1466 74R4639 MLR-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the identification of potential sources of funding and 1-3 support for early child care and education programs. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 14, Article 4413(502), Revised Statutes, 1-6 is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) The commission, the Texas Department of Commerce, and 1-8 any appropriate interagency committee on early childhood programs 1-9 shall coordinate efforts to identify potential sources of local, 1-10 state, federal, and private funds and technical assistance to 1-11 support collaboration and cooperation of local early child care and 1-12 education programs. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.