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Relating to reimbursement rates for child-care providers participating in the Texas Rising Star Program, the official text

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H.B. No. 2294

AN ACT

relating to reimbursement rates for child-care providers

participating in the Texas Rising Star Program.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 2308.3151, Government Code, is amended

by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

(e) Each board may reimburse a Texas Rising Star Program

provider in the board's area at the board's maximum rate of

reimbursement for the provider's Texas Rising Star Program rating

level regardless of the provider's published rate only if paying

the higher reimbursement rate does not reduce the commission's

target performance measure for the average number of children

served each day for children receiving subsidized child care in the

workforce development area served by the board.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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President of the Senate
Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 2294 was passed by the House on May

10, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 107, Nays 26, 2 present, not

voting.

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Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 2294 was passed by the Senate on May

26, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3.

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Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: _____________________

Date

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Governor
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