{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-labor-code-302.0041","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Labor Code § 302.0041","heading":"CHILD-CARE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT GRANTS.","body":"(a) The commission may make grants available on a one-time basis to local workforce development boards to enable the boards to design and implement child-care demonstration projects.\n(b) A local workforce development board that receives a grant under this section shall use the grant to design and implement a demonstration project that:\n(1) expands child-care services in underserved rural local workforce development areas, including:\n(A) home-based child-care services;\n(B) child-care services at nontraditional times, including services that accommodate the child-care needs of parents who work shift-schedules, evenings, and weekends; or\n(C) services to link child-care programs, prekindergarten programs under Subchapter E, Chapter 29, Education Code, and the federal Head Start program;\n(2) creates or expands existing pilot programs, based on demonstration models from other states, that provide strategies for successfully recruiting and retaining child-care providers;\n(3) creates pilot programs designed to assist low-income, at-risk parents receiving child-care services provided by the commission for extended periods who may benefit from career counseling and employment location services that promote the potential for career advancement; or\n(4) develops initiatives that foster school readiness in young children and encourage pre-reading and problem-solving skills in those children.\n(c) To be eligible for a grant under this section, a local workforce development board must:\n(1) conduct the demonstration project for which the grant is made in a manner that allows replication of the project in whole or part by other local workforce development boards to address similar child-care service needs in underserved local workforce development areas; and\n(2) use the grant to develop direct child-care services that, at the conclusion of the demonstration project, may be funded.\n(d) Child-care services that may continue to be funded under Subsection (c)(2) at the conclusion of the demonstration project may be funded through existing local workforce development board resources for child-care services or other local resources.\nAdded by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 495, Sec. 1, eff. June 11, 2001.","path":["LABOR CODE","TITLE 4. EMPLOYMENT SERVICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT","SUBTITLE B. TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION; WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYMENT SERVICES","CHAPTER 302. DIVISION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.302.htm#302.0041","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:24Z","sha256":"2687bc33954579c1defaae484d15f5a3139e0dea5540558311db90ad5e5151d7","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-labor-code-302.004","next":"us-tx/tex.-labor-code-302.0042"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}