SRC-JEC H.B. 1348 77(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 1348
By: Villarreal, Mike (Shapleigh)
Business & Commerce
5/9/2001
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Child-care facilities are often instrumental in providing early education
services to children. These services are crucial not only in fostering
positive learning environments for children during their developmental
years, but also in enabling the parents of those children to work. In
Texas, however, assistance for child-care is limited. H.B. 1348 authorizes
the Texas Workforce Commission to make grants available on a one-time basis
for local workforce development boards to design and implement initiatives
to address regional child-care needs.  

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 Chapter 302A, Labor Code, by adding Section 302.0041,  as
follows: 

Sec. 302.0041.  CHILD-CARE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT GRANTS. (a) Authorizes the
Texas Workforce Commission (commission) to make grants available on a
one-time basis to local workforce development boards to enable the boards
to design and implement child-care demonstration projects. 

(b)  Requires a local workforce development board that receives a grant
under this section to use the grant to design and implement a demonstration
project that meets certain goals. 
  
(c)  Requires a local workforce development board to meet certain criteria
in order to be eligible for a grant under this section.  

(d)  Provides that child-care services that may continue to be funded under
Subsection (c)(2) at the conclusion of the demonstration project may be
funded through existing local workforce development board resources for
child-care services or other local resources. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2001.