Sec. 302.0043. EVALUATION OF EFFECTIVENESS OF SUBSIDIZED CHILD CARE PROGRAM. (a) To evaluate the effectiveness of the commission's child care program in helping parents who receive subsidized child care to maintain employment, the commission shall compile, regarding each parent receiving subsidized child care from the commission's child care program, the following information regarding the wage and employment status of the parent:
(1) if the parent receives both financial assistance under Chapter 31, Human Resources Code, and subsidized child care, whether the parent:
(A) finds employment; and
(B) maintains the parent's employment after one year;
(2) if the parent receives only subsidized child care, whether the parent:
(A) maintains the parent's employment; and
(B) experiences a change in the parent's earnings after one year of employment; and
(3) if the parent leaves the child care program:
(A) the parent's reason for leaving the program; and
(B) whether the parent returns to financial assistance under Chapter 31, Human Resources Code, or becomes a recipient of financial assistance under that chapter for the first time.
(b) The commission may use the wage and employment records of the parents to determine the employment outcome of the parents.
(c) The commission shall also measure and evaluate the effectiveness of the commission's child care program in:
(1) improving the training of child care professionals; and
(2) facilitating collaboration with Head Start, the Texas Education Agency, the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, and the Health and Human Services Commission.
(d) The commission shall periodically analyze the information collected by the commission under this section and shall compile its findings regarding the effectiveness of the commission's child care program.
(e) The commission shall make the information collected by the commission and the commission's findings available to local workforce development boards.
(f) Not later than January 15 of each odd-numbered year, the commission shall report to the legislature regarding the commission's findings regarding the effectiveness of the commission's child care program. The report must:
(1) include employment outcome information, disaggregated by local workforce development area, regarding parents receiving subsidized care under the program; and
(2) identify multiyear trends in the information collected and analyzed by the commission under this section, including trends in the information for at least the five state fiscal years preceding the date of the report.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 817, Sec. 4.06, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1138 (S.B. 208), Sec. 23, eff. September 1, 2015.
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