SRC-MWN H.B. 1309 77(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 1309
77R10631 SGA-DBy: Villarreal, Mike (Shapleigh)
Business & Commerce
5/9/2001
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Under current law, recipients of the Train our Teachers award, which is
funded through the federal Child Care Development Fund, are not required to
enter child-care facilities that serve needy children. The Child Care
Development Fund, however, was created under the federal welfare reform
plan in 1996 to benefit needy children. While children from impoverished
environments may greatly benefit from a quality early education, they are
less likely to receive such care. H.B. 1309 requires early education
teachers who receive scholarships funded by the federal Child Care
Development Fund to complete their obligated 18 months of early education
teaching in child care facilities that accept federal Child Care
Development Fund subsidies and are located within the attendance zone of a
lowperforming school campus or in an economically disadvantaged community.  

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Sections 302.006(c) and (e), Labor Code, as added by
Chapter 1433, Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, as
follows: 

(c)  Requires a person, to be eligible to receive a scholarship awarded
under this section, to meet certain criteria. 

(e)  Authorizes the commission to provide for payment of a bonus or wage
supplementation to a scholarship recipient who for 18 months after the date
of receiving the scholarship provides care for children younger than six
years of age while remaining in the employment of the childcare facility
that employed the person when the scholarship was awarded and that meets
the requirements of Subsection (c)(3). 

SECTION 2. Makes application of this Act prospective.

SECTION 3. Effective date: September 1, 2001.