SRC-VRA, S.B. 75 78R   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 75
78R540 PB-DBy: Zaffirini
Business and Commerce
4/7/2003
As Filed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) is responsible for administering the
Child Care and Development Block Grant, which is flexibly operated through
TWC's network of twenty-eight local workforce development boards.  As
proposed, S.B. 75 requires TWC to provide technical assistance to local
workforce development boards on the implementation of child-care programs
financed by employers for low-wage employees and to provide information to
employers regarding tax incentives available to employers for the
provision of child-care services.  This bill additionally requires local
work force boards to provide 45 day notice in writing prior to terminating
a recipient's child care subsidy. 

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 Sections 302.0042
and 302.0043,  
as follows:

Sec.  302.0042.  TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR CERTAIN CHILD-CARE PROGRAMS.
(a)  Requires the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) to provide technical
assistance in each local workforce development area established under
Section 2308.252 (Workforce and Economic Competitiveness Act), Government
Code, regarding the implementation of child-care programs that are
financed by employers for low-wage employees.  Requires TWC, as part of
the assistance provided under this section, to perform certain duties. 

(b)  Requires TWC, in providing assistance to employers under Subsection
(a) (2), to develop and provide to affected employers information
regarding any tax incentives available to employers for the provision of
child-care services.  

Sec.  302.0043.  NOTICE REGARDING TERMINATION OF CERTAIN CHILD-CARE
SERVICES.  (a)  Requires TWC to direct each local workforce development
board to notify a working poor subsidy recipient who resides in that
board's local workforce development area and who receives child-care
services from a child-care services program financed through state or
federal funds of any termination of the program. 

(b)  Requires the local workforce development board to provide the notice
in writing to the recipient not later than the 45th day before the
scheduled date of termination of the affected child-care services program. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date:  upon passage or September 1, 2003.