SRC-VRA C.S.S.B. 75 78(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research CenterC.S.S.B. 75
78R12537 PB-DBy: Zaffirini
Business and Commerce
5/7/2003
Committee Report (Substituted)


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 28 local workforce development boards.  C.S.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
workforce boards to provide 30-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 Subchapter A, Chapter 302, 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 (board), except as
provided by this subsection, to provide the notice in writing to the
recipient not later than the 30th day before the scheduled date of
termination of the affected child-care services program.  Requires the
notice to include information regarding other child-care services programs
under which the recipient may be eligible for services.  Authorizes the
board, if providing notice on or before the deadline specified by this
subsection would interfere with the ability of the local workforce
development board to comply with its duties regarding the number of
children to be served or would require the expenditure of funds in excess
of the amount appropriated to the board, to provide the notice on the
earliest date on which it is  practicable for the board to provide notice. 

(c)  Provides that this section does not apply to a recipient whose
child-care services are terminated as a result of fraud or a sanction
imposed by TWC.   

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