HBA-JLV, SEP C.S.H.B. 1309 77(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisC.S.H.B. 1309
By: Villarreal, Mike
Economic Development
4/17/2001
Committee Report (Substituted)



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Under current law, recipients of the Train our Teachers award, which is
funded through the federal Child Care Development Fund, are not required to
enter child-care facilities that serve needy children.  The Child Care
Development Fund, however, was created under the federal welfare reform
plan in 1996 to benefit needy children.  While children from impoverished
environments may greatly benefit from a quality early education, they are
less likely to receive such care.  C.S.H.B. 1309 requires early education
teachers who receive scholarships funded by the federal Child Care
Development Fund to complete their obligated 18 months of early education
teaching in child care facilities that accept federal Child Care
Development Fund subsidies and are located within the attendance zone of a
low-performing school campus or in an economically disadvantaged community. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 1309 amends the Labor Code to modify the eligibility requirements
for a person to receive a professional child-care training scholarship to
specify that the child-care facility at which the person agrees to work for
at least 18 additional months must accept federal Child Care Development
Fund subsidies and that, at the time the person begins to fulfill the work
requirement, is located within the attendance zone of a low-performing
school campus or in an economically disadvantaged community.  The bill also
specifies that, for a scholarship recipient to receive a bonus or wage
supplementation during the 18 additional months at the facility that
employed the person when the scholarship was awarded, the facility must
meet these requirements.   

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2001.

COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL TO SUBSTITUTE

C.S.H.B. 1309 modifies the original to provide that a child-care facility
at which a person who receives a professional child-care training
scholarship agrees to work for at least 18 additional months must, at the
time the person begins to fulfill the work requirement, be located within
the attendance zone of a lowperforming school campus or in an economically
disadvantaged community.