By Alvarado                                      H.B. No. 439

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the establishment of child care training centers for

 1-3     certain recipients of public assistance.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 44, Human Resources Code, is amended by

 1-6     adding Subchapter D to read as follows:

 1-7                 SUBCHAPTER D.  CHILD CARE TRAINING CENTERS

 1-8           Sec. 44.081.  CHILD CARE TRAINING CENTERS.  The Texas

 1-9     Workforce Commission shall adopt rules under which the commission

1-10     shall certify day-care centers operating under this chapter as

1-11     training centers that offer training and certification for

1-12     recipients of public assistance in basic child care, child-care

1-13     vendor entrepreneurial training, and Head Start teaching.

1-14           SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 302, Labor Code, is amended

1-15     by adding Section 302.003 to read as follows:

1-16           Sec. 302.003.  CHILD CARE TRAINING CENTERS.  The commission

1-17     shall adopt rules under which the division shall certify day-care

1-18     facilities licensed under Chapter 42, Human Resources Code, as

1-19     training centers that offer training and certification for

1-20     recipients of public assistance in basic child care, child-care

1-21     vendor entrepreneurial training, and Head Start teaching.  The

1-22     commission shall cooperate with the Department of Protective and

1-23     Regulatory Services in the adoption of rules under this section.

1-24     The commission may not adopt a rule under this section that

 2-1     conflicts with a rule of the Department of Protective and

 2-2     Regulatory Services.

 2-3           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-4           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-5     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.