By Raymond                                            H.B. No. 1649
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1649:
          By Maxey                                          C.S.H.B. No. 1649
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the development and implementation of an electronic
    1-3  data processing system to expedite payments to certain child-care
    1-4  providers.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 22, Human Resources Code, is amended by
    1-7  adding Section 22.026 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 22.026.  ELECTRONIC CHILD-CARE DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM.
    1-9  (a)  To expedite payments to child-care providers who participate
   1-10  in the child-care management system, the department shall develop
   1-11  and implement a system that uses an electronic scanner or another
   1-12  form of electronic technology to process data, including attendance
   1-13  data, that is necessary for the department to administer child-care
   1-14  programs provided by or on behalf of the department through the
   1-15  child-care management system.
   1-16        (b)  In developing and implementing a system under this
   1-17  section, the department shall:
   1-18              (1)  choose the most cost-effective method for
   1-19  processing the data; and
   1-20              (2)  monitor, in conjunction with regional child-care
   1-21  management system contractors, the accuracy of the data to be
   1-22  processed by the system using the method developed by the
   1-23  department with the assistance of any applicable work group.
   1-24        (c)  The department may contract with a state agency, a
    2-1  public entity, or a private person or entity to implement the
    2-2  system under this section.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  (a)  The Work Group on Child-Care Electronic Data
    2-4  Processing is created to advise and assist the Texas Department of
    2-5  Human Services in developing the system required by Section 22.026,
    2-6  Human Resources Code, as added by this Act.
    2-7        (b)  The work group is composed of:
    2-8              (1)  a representative of the Health and Human Services
    2-9  Commission, appointed by the commissioner of health and human
   2-10  services;
   2-11              (2)  a representative of the Texas Department of Human
   2-12  Services, appointed by the commissioner of human services;
   2-13              (3)  a representative of the comptroller's office,
   2-14  appointed by the comptroller;
   2-15              (4)  a child-care management system contractor,
   2-16  appointed by the commissioner of health and human services; and
   2-17              (5)  technical experts with knowledge in electronic
   2-18  data processing, appointed by the commissioner of health and human
   2-19  services.
   2-20        (c)  The representative of the Health and Human Services
   2-21  Commission shall serve as the presiding officer.
   2-22        (d)  The work group shall meet at least once each month at
   2-23  the call of the presiding officer.
   2-24        (e)  The appointing agency or office is responsible for the
   2-25  expenses of a member's service on the work group.  Members of the
   2-26  work group receive no additional compensation for serving on the
   2-27  work group.
    3-1        (f)  The work group shall assist the Texas Department of
    3-2  Human Services in developing a method to monitor the accuracy of
    3-3  the data processed by the department through the system developed
    3-4  by the department under Section 22.026, Human Resources Code, as
    3-5  added by this Act.
    3-6        (g)  This section expires September 1, 1996.
    3-7        SECTION 3.  Not later than March 1, 1996, the Texas
    3-8  Department of Human Services shall develop the system required by
    3-9  Section 22.026, Human Resources Code, as added by this Act.
   3-10        SECTION 4.  Not later than September 1, 1995, the
   3-11  commissioner of health and human services, the commissioner of
   3-12  human services, and the comptroller shall designate their
   3-13  representatives to the Work Group on Child-Care Electronic Data
   3-14  Processing.
   3-15        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   3-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   3-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   3-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   3-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   3-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   3-21  passage, and it is so enacted.