By Alvarado H.B. No. 439 75R2613 JMM-D 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.