86R28751 MCK-F
By: Deshotel H.B. No. 3876
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3876:
By: Romero, Jr. C.S.H.B. No. 3876
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the creation of a work group to advise the Texas
Workforce Commission regarding the Texas Rising Star Program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 2308, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 2308.321 to read as follows:
Sec. 2308.321. TEXAS RISING STAR PROGRAM REVIEW WORK GROUP.
(a) The Texas Rising Star Program review work group is established
to propose revisions to the commission's rules on the Texas Rising
Star Program.
(b) The work group consists of the following members
appointed by the executive director of the commission:
(1) at least one member from the commission;
(2) at least one member from the Health and Human
Services Commission;
(3) at least one member from the early childhood
education division of the Texas Education Agency;
(4) at least one member from the governor's Texas Early
Learning Council;
(5) at least one member who is appointed to a local
workforce development board;
(6) at least four members who are Texas Rising Star
Program providers with different Texas Rising Star Program ratings:
(A) at least one of whom must be a for-profit
private provider;
(B) at least one of whom must be a single-site
provider;
(C) at least one of whom must be a multi-site
provider; and
(D) at least one of whom must be an individual who
provides child care in the provider's own home;
(7) at least one provider who is a Texas School Ready!
participant;
(8) at least three members employed by different
boards who work in the employing board's child-care program and
have experience and expertise in early childhood development or the
Texas Rising Star Program or other similar certification or
accreditation programs; and
(9) not more than three public members who are
ineligible for appointment to the work group under Subdivisions
(1)-(8) and whom the executive director considers indispensable to
work group purposes.
(c) The work group shall hold the group's initial meeting
not later than November 1, 2019, and shall meet at other times as
determined by the presiding officer.
(d) The work group shall elect a presiding officer by a vote
of the membership of the work group.
(e) Not later than May 1, 2020, the work group shall submit
to the executive director of the commission recommendations
proposing revisions to the commission's guidelines relating to the
Texas Rising Star Program. In making its recommendations, the work
group shall consider:
(1) professional development standards for child-care
directors and employees, including training and annual
professional development requirements;
(2) education and experience requirements for mentors
and evaluators;
(3) early learning and school readiness standards;
(4) guidelines for infants and toddlers in child care;
(5) minimum training hours for providers;
(6) playground standards, including outdoor learning
environments;
(7) nutrition standards;
(8) standards for use of technology in child care;
(9) best practices guidelines based on standards
adopted by nationally recognized organizations, including Head
Start Program Performance Standards, National Health and Safety
Performance Standards, National Association for the Education of
Young Children program standards and accreditation criteria,
National Association for Family Child Care standards, United States
Department of Defense standards, national accreditation standards,
and Texas School Ready! participant standards;
(10) research on infant and toddler brain development;
and
(11) strategies for the long-term financing of the
Texas Rising Star Program, including:
(A) financing the payment of:
(i) incentives to child-care providers
participating in the program; and
(ii) grants and rewards to child-care
providers that achieve and maintain high levels of service; and
(B) strategies to support wage parity for
child-care providers participating in the program.
(f) Not later than September 1, 2020, the commission shall
propose rules that incorporate the proposed revisions submitted by
the work group under Subsection (e).
(g) The executive director of the commission shall make the
appointments under this section on September 1, 2019.
(h) This section expires December 1, 2020.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.