Bill Text: TX HB1614 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to a grant program to provide free public school prekindergarten programs to certain children who are eligible for the subsidized child-care program administered by the Texas Workforce Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-17 - Left pending in committee [HB1614 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1614-Engrossed.html
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| By: Dutton | H.B. No. 1614 | |
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| relating to a grant program to provide free public school | ||
| prekindergarten programs to certain children who are eligible for | ||
| the subsidized child-care program administered by the Texas | ||
| Workforce Commission. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 29.1537 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 29.1537. PREKINDERGARTEN COMMUNITY-BASED CHILD-CARE | ||
| PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROGRAM. (a) The commissioner shall establish | ||
| and administer a grant program to support school districts and | ||
| open-enrollment charter schools in increasing partnerships with | ||
| community-based child-care providers to provide prekindergarten | ||
| classes under Section 29.153. | ||
| (b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
| apply for a grant under the program in partnership with a | ||
| community-based child-care provider described by Section | ||
| 29.153(g). | ||
| (c) A school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
| shall use money received under the grant program to fund the | ||
| enrollment of eligible children in prekindergarten classes | ||
| provided under Section 29.153 through a partnership between the | ||
| district or school and a community-based child-care provider | ||
| described by Section 29.153(g). A child is eligible for enrollment | ||
| in a prekindergarten class described by this subsection using money | ||
| received under the grant program if the child is: | ||
| (1) at least three years of age; and | ||
| (2) receives subsidized child-care services provided | ||
| through the child-care services program administered by the Texas | ||
| Workforce Commission. | ||
| (d) The commissioner may provide grants under the grant | ||
| program for the enrollment in each school year of not more than | ||
| 3,500 children in a prekindergarten class described by Subsection | ||
| (c). | ||
| (e) The agency shall annually report to the legislature | ||
| regarding the number of children described by Subsection (c) | ||
| enrolled in a prekindergarten class. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 29.1537, Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with the 2023-2024 school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
