Bill Text: TX HB3739 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to including certain child care providers in the Texas Rising Star Program and establishing a pilot program to expand participation in the Texas Rising Star Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-23 - Left pending in committee [HB3739 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3739-Introduced.html
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By: Goldman | H.B. No. 3739 |
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relating to including certain child care providers in the Texas | ||
Rising Star Program and establishing a pilot program to expand | ||
participation in the Texas Rising Star Program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2308.3155, Government Code, is amended | ||
by amending Subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows: | ||
(a) The Texas Rising Star Program is a [ |
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quality-based child care rating and quality improvement system of | ||
child care providers licensed by or registered with the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission [ |
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(b) The commission shall adopt rules to administer the Texas | ||
Rising Star Program, including: | ||
(1) guidelines for rating a child-care provider who | ||
provides child care to a child younger than 13 years of age, | ||
including infants and toddlers[ |
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(2) a timeline and process for regularly reviewing and | ||
updating the quality standards used to determine the rating system | ||
that includes the commission's consideration of input from | ||
interested parties regarding those standards. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter G, Chapter 2308, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 2308.3157 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2308.3157. TEXAS RISING STAR PROGRAM PILOT PROGRAM. | ||
(a) A local workforce development board may operate a pilot program | ||
in the area in which the board operates to increase the number of | ||
quality child-care providers in the area. A pilot program under | ||
this section must increase participation in the Texas Rising Star | ||
Program by: | ||
(1) allowing all licensed and registered child-care | ||
facilities in the local workforce development area to participate | ||
in the Texas Rising Star Program; | ||
(2) requiring all subsidized child-care providers in | ||
the local workforce development area to participate in the Texas | ||
Rising Star Program; | ||
(3) allowing the local workforce development board to | ||
contract with subsidized child-care providers operating in the | ||
board's area and participating in the Texas Rising Star Program to | ||
provide child-care services; or | ||
(4) a combination of the methods described in | ||
Subdivisions (1), (2), and (3). | ||
(b) Each local workforce development board participating in | ||
a pilot program must: | ||
(1) provide quality improvement support and resources | ||
to participating child-care providers; and | ||
(2) give priority to child-care providers that: | ||
(A) operate in an area with a higher poverty rate | ||
than the state's average poverty rate; or | ||
(B) primarily serve low-income families. | ||
(c) A local workforce development board is not required to | ||
participate in a pilot program authorized by this section. | ||
(d) Not later than 18 months after the date a local | ||
workforce development board begins a pilot program authorized by | ||
this section, the board shall submit a report to the commission and | ||
the governor's Texas Early Learning Council that includes: | ||
(1) a summary of each local workforce development | ||
board's evaluation of the results of the board's pilot program; and | ||
(2) a recommendation regarding the method for | ||
implementing the pilot program and expanding the program to other | ||
local workforce development boards. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |