Bill Text: TX SB940 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the evaluation of and improvements to the quality of the Texas Workforce Commission's subsidized child care program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-03 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB940 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB940-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the evaluation of and improvements to the quality of the Texas Workforce Commission's subsidized child care program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-03 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB940 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB940-Introduced.html
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By: Campbell | S.B. No. 940 |
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relating to the evaluation of and improvements to the quality of the | ||
Texas Workforce Commission's subsidized child care program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 302.0042, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) The commission's evaluation must assess: | ||
(1) the use of current federal child care funds by each | ||
local workforce development board; | ||
(2) the ability of each local workforce development | ||
board to meet child care performance measures; | ||
(3) the average cost incurred by child care providers | ||
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area; | ||
(4) the average price charged by child care providers | ||
for child care in each local workforce development area; | ||
(5) the poverty rate of each local workforce | ||
development area compared to the state's poverty rate; | ||
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child care in each local workforce development area; [ |
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program enrollment [ |
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placement in each local workforce development area; | ||
(8) the total number of child care providers | ||
participating in the Texas Rising Star Program in each local | ||
workforce development area and the number of 2-star, 3-star, and | ||
4-star rated child care providers in the local workforce | ||
development area; | ||
(9) the number of child care providers participating | ||
in the Texas Rising Star Program in each local workforce | ||
development area as a percentage of the total number of child care | ||
providers in the local workforce development area and the number of | ||
2-star, 3-star, and 4-star rated child care providers in the local | ||
workforce development area as a percentage of the total number of | ||
child care providers in the local workforce development area; | ||
(10) the total number of children enrolled in child | ||
care providers participating in the Texas Rising Star Program in | ||
each local workforce development area and the number of children | ||
enrolled in 2-star, 3-star, and 4-star rated child care providers | ||
in the local workforce development area; and | ||
(11) the number of children enrolled in child care | ||
providers participating in the Texas Rising Star Program in each | ||
local workforce development area as a percentage of the total | ||
number of children enrolled in child care providers in the local | ||
workforce development area and the number of children enrolled in | ||
2-star, 3-star, and 4-star rated child care providers in the local | ||
workforce development area as a percentage of the total number of | ||
children enrolled in child care providers in the local workforce | ||
development area. | ||
(c) For the purposes of evaluation under this section, the | ||
commission shall annually conduct a survey in each local workforce | ||
development area to determine: | ||
(1) the average cost incurred by child care providers | ||
in providing child care in the area; and | ||
(2) the average price charged by child care providers | ||
for child care in the area. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 302.0043, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (c-1) and amending Subsections (e) and (f) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c-1) The commission shall measure and evaluate the | ||
progress of the commission's child care program regarding: | ||
(1) coordination with the Texas Education Agency to | ||
enable the submission of relevant data related to children younger | ||
than five years of age enrolled in the commission's child care | ||
program through the Public Education Information Management System | ||
(PEIMS); | ||
(2) coordination with the Texas Education Agency, | ||
school districts, and open-enrollment charter schools on any | ||
prekindergarten quality improvement efforts; | ||
(3) facilitation of child care provider enrollment in | ||
the Texas Rising Star Program and progression of providers to the | ||
highest rating level in the program; and | ||
(4) development and implementation of rates and | ||
payments, as determined by local workforce development boards, to | ||
allow participating providers to provide high quality child care. | ||
(e) The commission shall make the information collected by | ||
the commission and the commission's findings available to local | ||
workforce development boards, school districts, open-enrollment | ||
charter schools, and the public. | ||
(f) Not later than January 15 of each odd-numbered year, the | ||
commission shall report to the legislature regarding the | ||
commission's findings regarding the effectiveness of the | ||
commission's child care program. The report must: | ||
(1) include employment outcome information, | ||
disaggregated by local workforce development area, regarding | ||
parents receiving subsidized care under the program; [ |
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(2) identify multiyear trends in the information | ||
collected and analyzed by the commission under this section, | ||
including trends in the information for at least the five state | ||
fiscal years preceding the date of the report; | ||
(3) include information described by Sections | ||
302.0042(b)(8)-(11); and | ||
(4) evaluate the findings of the survey conducted | ||
under Section 302.0042(c). | ||
SECTION 3. Section 302.00435, Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 302.00435. SUBSIDIZED CHILD CARE PROGRAM; INPUT | ||
POLICY. (a) The commission shall develop a policy for obtaining, | ||
through appropriate methods, input from interested parties | ||
regarding its subsidized child care program and for using that | ||
input in administering that program. | ||
(b) The policy developed under Subsection (a) must include | ||
methods for obtaining input from the Texas Education Agency, school | ||
districts, open-enrollment charter schools, relevant businesses, | ||
and the public, regarding: | ||
(1) improving coordination between the subsidized | ||
child care program and prekindergarten programs; and | ||
(2) increasing the quality of and access to the | ||
subsidized child care program. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |