1-1     By:  Shapleigh                                        S.B. No. 1374
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Human Services;
 1-4     April 16, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 1; April 16, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1374               By:  Zaffirini
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the local matching funds requirement for the child care
1-11     and development fund.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 302, Labor Code, is amended
1-14     by adding Section 302.064 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 302.064.  RELIEF FROM LOCAL MATCHING FUNDS REQUIREMENT.
1-16     (a)  In this section, "economically disadvantaged county" means a
1-17     county that has, in comparison to other counties in the state:
1-18                 (1)  below average per capita taxable property value;
1-19                 (2)  below average per capita income; and
1-20                 (3)  above average unemployment.
1-21           (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), the commission may
1-22     require, request, or accept from a local workforce development area
1-23     matching or other local funds or any other local incentives to make
1-24     the most efficient use of the child care and development fund
1-25     administered by the commission.
1-26           (c)  In evaluating a proposal for the use of funds from the
1-27     child care and development fund in a local workforce development
1-28     area in which at least half of the counties that constitute the
1-29     area are economically disadvantaged counties, the commission:
1-30                 (1)  may not consider the absence or value of local
1-31     incentives provided under Subsection (b) beyond the minimum
1-32     required local matching funds; and
1-33                 (2)  shall adjust the minimum local matching funds
1-34     requirement after evaluating the local workforce development area's
1-35     effort and ability to meet the requirement.
1-36           (d)  In making an adjustment under Subsection (c)(2), the
1-37     commission may use any other available resources to help satisfy a
1-38     federal requirement.
1-39           (e)  The commission shall report annually to the governor,
1-40     the lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
1-41     representatives on the use of matching funds and local incentives
1-42     and the ability of the commission to ensure that local workforce
1-43     development areas in which at least half of the counties that
1-44     constitute the area are economically disadvantaged counties have
1-45     equal ability to compete for funding through the child care and
1-46     development fund with local workforce development areas in which
1-47     less than half of the counties that constitute the area are
1-48     economically disadvantaged counties.
1-49           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-50           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-51     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-52     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-53     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-54     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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