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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to establishing a child-care services waiting list |
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priority for the children of certain child-care workers. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 302, Labor Code, is |
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amended by adding Section 302.0064 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 302.0064. CHILD-CARE SERVICES WAITING LIST PRIORITY |
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FOR CHILD-CARE WORKERS. (a) A local workforce development board |
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that maintains a waiting list for child-care services shall give a |
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priority on the waiting list to children of child-care workers who |
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are eligible for those services. |
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(b) A child-care worker whose child receives a priority |
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position on a waiting list as provided by Subsection (a) must |
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continue to work as a child-care worker in the state until the first |
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anniversary of the date the worker's child is placed in child-care |
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services for which there was a waiting list. |
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(c) If a child-care worker whose child received a priority |
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under this section leaves the child-care workforce before the end |
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of the time period described by Subsection (b), the commission |
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shall review the circumstances of the child-care worker's |
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employment and may terminate child-care services for the worker's |
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child. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |