By: Kolkhorst, Blanco S.B. No. 462
Miles
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to establishing a child-care services waiting list
priority for the children of certain child-care workers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 302, Labor Code, is
amended by adding Section 302.0064 to read as follows:
Sec. 302.0064. CHILD-CARE SERVICES WAITING LIST PRIORITY
FOR CHILD-CARE WORKERS. (a) For purposes of this section,
"child-care worker" means an individual employed by and working in
a child-care facility licensed under Chapter 42, Human Resources
Code, for a minimum of 25 hours per week. The term does not include
the owner or director of a child-care facility unless the owner's or
director's child is served in a program other than a program
directly supervised by the owner or director.
(b) The commission shall require that any waiting list for
child-care services must establish a priority position for the
delivery of those services to children of child-care workers who
are eligible for the services.
(c) A child-care worker whose child receives a priority
position on a waitlist as provided by Subsection (b) is subject to
redetermination of the individual's eligibility for services in
accordance with commission rule each year.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.