1-1     By:  Tillery (Senate Sponsor - Cain)                  H.B. No. 3333
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1999;
 1-3     May 3, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic
 1-4     Development; May 14, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0;
 1-6     May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3333              By:  Armbrister
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to certain duties of local workforce development boards in
1-11     connection with the provision of child care.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.   Subchapter G, Chapter 2308, Government Code, is
1-14     amended by adding Sections 2308.315 and 2308.316 to read as
1-15     follows:
1-16           Sec. 2308.315.  REIMBURSEMENT RATES FOR CHILD CARE.  Each
1-17     board shall establish graduated reimbursement rates for child care
1-18     based on the Texas Workforce Commission's designated vendor
1-19     program.  The minimum reimbursement rate for designated vendors
1-20     must be at least five percent greater than the maximum rate
1-21     established for nondesignated vendors for the same category of
1-22     care.  The designated vendor rate differential established in this
1-23     section may be funded with federal child care development funds
1-24     dedicated to quality improvement activities.
1-25           Sec. 2308.316.  FUNDING OF COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT SYSTEM FOR
1-26     INFANT AND TODDLER CHILD CARE.  Each board shall allocate a portion
1-27     of the board's federal child care development funds to a
1-28     competitive procurement system for the provision of quality child
1-29     care for children under four years of age that encourages child
1-30     care providers to voluntarily meet the criteria of the Texas
1-31     Workforce Commission's designated vendor program or national
1-32     accreditation.  In allocating funds under this section, special
1-33     emphasis shall be given to funding child care for children under
1-34     four years of age in low-income communities.
1-35           SECTION 2.   This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-36           SECTION 3.   The importance of this legislation and the
1-37     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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