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Floor Packet Page No. 349                                                   

	
Amend CSHB 1 as follows:                                                     

(1)  In Article III of the bill, following the appropriation 	to the Texas Education Agency, add the following appropriately 
numbered rider:
	___.  Out of the funds appropriated above in Strategy A.2.2, 
Student Success, the commissioner of education shall, in each 
fiscal year of the fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2005,  allocate 
$1 million in federal child care and development funds transferred 
from the Texas Workforce Commission through interagency contract 
and $1 million in general revenue funds for a prekindergarten and 
child care and development fund coordination demonstration project 
to serve at joint locations children who are eligible for 
government-funded prekindergarten and children who are eligible 
for subsidized child care funded by federal child care and 
development funds.  The commissioner of education shall select 
appropriate sites and participating entities for the project.  To 
the extent authorized by other law, the commissioner of education 
and other appropriate executive officers of other state agencies 
shall waive rules and procedures necessary to facilitate operation 
of the project.  The participating entities in the project may 
include local governments, independent school districts, local 
workforce development boards, community organizations, 
institutions of higher education, and other organizations with the 
capacity to serve children included in the project.  The 
commissioner of education shall use funds allocated under this 
rider to distribute grants to participating entities.  The 
commissioner of education shall determine the amount and duration 
of each grant.  Each grant recipient must:
		(1)  serve a number of children equal to the number of 
children that would otherwise be served through government-funded 
prekindergarten services or subsidized child care using the amount 
of the grant; and
		(2)  contribute matching funds or in-kind resources in 
an amount determined by the commissioner of education as sufficient 
to enable the recipient to:
			(a)  provide quality care and education to 
children served;                
			(b)  administer the project; and                                             
			(c)  study the cost-effectiveness, 
cost-efficiency, and school-readiness outcomes of the project.
	(2)  In Article III of the bill, following the appropriation 
to the Texas Education Agency, amend Rider 45 (page III-14) in the 
first sentence by striking "$75,092,439" both places it appears and 
substituting "$74,092,439".
	(3)  In Article VII of the bill, following the appropriation 
to the Texas Workforce Commission, add the following appropriately 
numbered rider:
	___.  Out of the funds appropriated above in Strategy A.1.1, 
Child Care Services, $1 million in federal child care and 
development funds shall be transferred through interagency 
contract in each fiscal year of the fiscal biennium ending August 
31, 2005 to the Texas Education Agency for the prekindergarten and 
child care and development fund coordination demonstration 
project.