By Coleman, Greenberg                                 H.B. No. 2906
       74R1884 SMH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a study and report regarding the training and
    1-3  certification of early childhood education workers.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  INTERAGENCY WORK GROUP ON TRAINING AND
    1-6  CERTIFICATION OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION WORKERS.  (a)  Not later
    1-7  than September 1, 1995, the administrative heads of the Central
    1-8  Education Agency, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas
    1-9  Department of Health, Texas Department of Human Services,
   1-10  Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, Interagency
   1-11  Council on Early Childhood Intervention Services, and Texas Head
   1-12  Start Collaboration Project shall each designate a representative
   1-13  to an interagency work group on training and education of early
   1-14  childhood education workers.
   1-15        (b)  The representative of the Texas Head Start Collaboration
   1-16  Project shall serve as the chair.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  DUTIES OF WORK GROUP.  The interagency work group
   1-18  shall study:
   1-19              (1)  the quality of training programs for early
   1-20  childhood education workers; and
   1-21              (2)  the need for, design of, and potential funding
   1-22  sources for a statewide professional training and certification
   1-23  program for those workers.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  TIME FOR COMPLETION OF STUDY.  The interagency
    2-1  work group shall complete the study and report its findings to the
    2-2  legislature by March 1, 1997.
    2-3        SECTION 4.  EXPIRATION.  This Act expires June 1, 1997.
    2-4        SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    2-5  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.