Bill Text: TX SB1249 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to establishing a certified caregiver pilot program in the Borderplex workforce development area.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-12 - Filed [SB1249 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB1249-Introduced.html
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| By: Blanco | S.B. No. 1249 | |
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| relating to establishing a certified caregiver pilot program in the | ||
| Borderplex workforce development area. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 4, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Chapter 321 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 321. CERTIFIED CAREGIVER PILOT PROGRAM | ||
| Sec. 321.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "program" means | ||
| the certified caregiver pilot program established under this | ||
| chapter. | ||
| Sec. 321.002. ESTABLISHMENT. (a) The commission shall | ||
| establish and administer the certified caregiver pilot program in | ||
| the Borderplex workforce development area to address the need for | ||
| after-hours child care for single-parent household working parents | ||
| who are pursuing a short-term workforce training program in the | ||
| area. | ||
| (b) The program shall: | ||
| (1) assist employees of child-care facilities | ||
| licensed under Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Human Resources Code, with | ||
| obtaining a license under Section 321.004 in order to provide child | ||
| care to the children of eligible parents outside of regular working | ||
| hours in the employee's home; and | ||
| (2) provide supplemental subsidized child care for | ||
| single-parent households eligible under Section 321.005. | ||
| Sec. 321.003. PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION. (a) The local | ||
| workforce development board serving the Borderplex workforce | ||
| development area shall select a total of 30 single-parent families | ||
| eligible under Section 321.005 that will qualify for supplemental | ||
| subsidized child care for a period of not more than six months. | ||
| (b) A certified caregiver licensed under Section 321.004 | ||
| shall be eligible to participate in the commission's subsidized | ||
| child-care program to provide child care outside regular working | ||
| hours to a child of a parent participating in the program. | ||
| Sec. 321.004. LICENSE FOR CERTIFIED CAREGIVER. (a) The | ||
| executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission | ||
| shall adopt a procedure to issue a license to a caregiver who meets | ||
| the requirements of this section that allows the caregiver to | ||
| operate as a listed family home for purposes of the pilot program. | ||
| (b) The procedure must require a caregiver to: | ||
| (1) be a current employee of a child-care facility | ||
| licensed under Chapter 42, Human Resources Code, with not less than | ||
| two years of child-care experience; | ||
| (2) provide after-hours child care in the caregiver's | ||
| own home; and | ||
| (3) list the caregiver's home with the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission as a family home and comply with minimum | ||
| standards for a listed family home adopted by the executive | ||
| commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission under | ||
| Section 42.042, Human Resources Code. | ||
| Sec. 321.005. PARENT ELIGIBILITY. To be eligible to | ||
| receive a child-care subsidy under the program, a parent must, at | ||
| the time of application: | ||
| (1) receive a subsidy under the commission's | ||
| child-care subsidy program; | ||
| (2) reside in a single-parent household; | ||
| (3) have completed a sufficient number of | ||
| postsecondary education credit hours, as determined by the | ||
| commission; | ||
| (4) be enrolled in or agree to enroll in a short-term | ||
| workforce training program supported by the local workforce | ||
| development board serving the Borderplex workforce development | ||
| area; and | ||
| (5) demonstrate a need for child care outside of | ||
| regular working hours in order to complete the workforce training | ||
| program described under Subdivision (4). | ||
| Sec. 321.006. REPORT. Not later than December 1, 2028, the | ||
| commission shall prepare and submit to the governor, lieutenant | ||
| governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and standing | ||
| committee of each house of the legislature with primary | ||
| jurisdiction over economic development a report on: | ||
| (1) the efficacy of the program; | ||
| (2) the completion rate of workforce training programs | ||
| by parents receiving child care under the program; | ||
| (3) the total cost of the program; and | ||
| (4) a recommendation on whether to continue, expand, | ||
| or terminate the program. | ||
| Sec. 321.007. RULES. The commission shall adopt rules | ||
| necessary to implement this chapter. | ||
| Sec. 321.008. EXPIRATION. This chapter expires September | ||
| 1, 2029. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
