81R9644 KLA-D
By: Flores H.B. No. 2072
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the distribution of federal child care development
funds to local workforce development boards.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 302.0042, Labor Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (c), (d), and (e) to read as follows:
(c) The commission shall determine each local workforce
development board's average maximum reimbursement rate in effect
during the previous year before evaluating the formulas used to
distribute federal child care development funds as required by
Subsection (a). To determine that average rate, the commission
shall average the local workforce development area's maximum
reimbursement rates in effect for each type of care, but may not
weight the average according to the area's child care case mix.
(d) Each year after determining the average maximum
reimbursement rates as provided by Subsection (c), the commission
shall identify each local workforce development area that has an
average maximum reimbursement rate that is ranked in the fourth
quartile of those rates. The commission shall adjust the child care
development fund distribution formulas to provide sufficient funds
estimated to enable the local workforce development board in each
identified area to increase the average maximum reimbursement rate
to equal the overall average maximum reimbursement rate for all
local workforce development areas.
(e) Funds provided to a local workforce development board
under Subsection (d) may be used only to increase child care
reimbursement rates, and may not be used for administrative
expenses or to increase the number of children provided services.
The board shall provide a report to the commission at intervals
required by the commission that describes in detail the purposes
for which the funds were used. The commission shall compile the
reports into a single report and provide that report to the
legislature not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year.
SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision,
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the
waiver or authorization is granted.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.