Amend CSSB 1 by amending Rider 27 following the Article VII
appropriations to the Texas Workforce Commission (School Readiness
Models rider, page VII-45) to read as follows:
27. School Readiness Models. Out of federal funds
appropriated to the Texas Workforce Commission in Strategies A.3.1,
TANF Choices Child Care; A.3.2, Transitional Child Care; and A.3.3,
At-Risk Child Care, up to $50 million for the biennium shall be made
available to child care providers participating in integrated
school readiness models developed by the State Center for Early
Childhood Development at the University of Texas Health Science
Center at Houston. The Commission shall make its best effort to
implement this provision in a way that avoids [The initiative shall
be implemented in a way to avoid] any decline in the number of
children receiving child care during the 2010-2011 biennium. Not
later than December 1st of each even-numbered year, the State
Center for Early Childhood Development shall report to the
Legislature Budget Board and the Office of the Governor the
detailed use of all state funds expended by the center for early
childhood education services.