SRC-TBR H.B. 2763 77(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 2763
By: Solis, Jim (Jackson)
Business & Commerce
5/10/2001
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Currently, many local workforce boards do not define after school services
that take place on a school campus or at a Head Start Center as child care.
Consequently, these programs may neither apply for nor utilize local funds
spent on these programs as matching funds for the purposes of receiving
federal child care funds.  The result could be the under-utilization of
federal child care funds. H.B. 2763 requires the local workforce
development board to use money and services provided by a local school
district or local education agency for purposes of obtaining federal
matching funds for child care services.  

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 2308G, Government Code, by adding Section
2308.317, as follows: 

Sec. 2308.317.  MATCHING FUNDS FOR CHILD CARE SERVICES.  Requires a local
workforce development board, for purposes of obtaining federal matching
funds for child care services, including after-school care provided at a
school or a federal Head Start program, to use money and in-kind services
provided by a local school district or local education agency for those
services to the extent permitted by federal law. 

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