Mississippi HB 120: Child Care For Working Families Study Committee; create.

Bill Text

HB 120 (As Introduced) - 2019 Regular Session 

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2019 Regular Session

To: Youth and Family Affairs; Appropriations

By: Representative Hines

House Bill 120

AN ACT TO CREATE THE CHILD CARE FOR WORKING FAMILIES STUDY 
COMMITTEE; TO PROVIDE THAT THE COMMITTEE SHALL DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 
ENSURING EVERY WORKING PARENT IN MISSISSIPPI CAN ACCESS AND AFFORD CHILD CARE 
SO THEY CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE LABOR FORCE; TO PROVIDE THAT THE COMMITTEE SHALL 
IDENTIFY AND EXAMINE ALL FEDERAL REVENUE RECEIVED BY THE STATE AND ALL STATE 
FUNDS SPENT ON FEDERAL MATCHING OR MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT REQUIREMENTS THAT CAN 
ALLOWABLY BE SPENT, ALLOCATED, TRANSFERRED, GRANTED OR EXPENDED DIRECTLY TO THE 
CHILD CARE PAYMENT PROGRAM FOR PURPOSES OF INCREASING THE NUMBER OF ELIGIBLE 
PARENTS AND CHILDREN SERVED; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

���� BE IT ENACTED BY THE 
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

���� SECTION 1.� 
(1)� There is hereby created the Child Care for Working Families Study 
Committee to identify and examine all federal revenue received by Mississippi 
and all state funds spent on federal matching or maintenance of effort 
requirements that can allowably be spent, allocated, transferred, granted or 
expended directly to the Child Care Payment Program (CCPP) administered by the 
Mississippi Department of Human Services (MDHS) for purposes of developing 
strategies and recommendations for increasing the current number of children 
and families receiving child care assistance so that low- to moderate-income 
parents can participate in the labor force.

���� The committee shall, at a 
minimum, study and report to the 2020 Regular Session of the Legislature the 
following: 

��������� (a)� The total amount 
of federal revenue received by Mississippi and the total amount of state funds 
spent on federal matching or maintenance of effort requirements that can 
allowably fund the Child Care Payment Program, and the total amounts of 

federal revenue and of state 
spending disaggregated by agency, 

program, and revenue source;� 

��������� (b)� A cost�benefit 
analysis examining the impact of increasing Mississippi's labor force 
participation rate by increasing access to affordable child care through 
reprioritizing current expenditures of certain federal and state funds; 

��������� (c)� The total number 
of children in families with working parents earning eighty-five percent (85%) 
or less of state median income; 

��������� (d)� The total number 
of children on the Child Care Payment Program pending funding list during state 
fiscal years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020; 

��������� (e)� The total annual 
funding required to serve all current recipients of Child Care Payment Program 
assistance and the total additional annual funding necessary to serve all eligible 
children and families on the pending funding list; 

��������� (f)� The economic 
impact of increasing the labor force 

participation rate through 
increasing access to child care 

assistance for unemployed and 
underemployed adults and the 

economic impact of increasing 
spending at child care centers; 

��������� (g)� Examples in 
Mississippi and/or in other states of private employer�funded child care 
assistance for working parents; 

��������� (h)� Benefits to 
employers of employee access to affordable child care for more Mississippi 
workers; and

��������� (i)� Recommendations 
for increasing the amount of federal revenue and state funds spent on child 
care assistance for 

low� to moderate-income working 
parents. 

���� (2)� The Study Committee 
shall be composed of the following eleven (11) members: 

��������� (a)� The Executive 
Director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services or his/her designee; 

��������� (b)� The Executive 
Director of the Mississippi Department of Employment Security or his/her 
designee; 

��������� (c)� The Chairman of 
the State Workforce Investment Board or his/her designee; 

��������� (d)� The State 
Treasurer or his/her designee; 

��������� (e)� The Executive 
Director of the Department of Finance and Administration or his/her designee; 

��������� (f)� The Governor's 
Workforce Development Policy Advisor; 

��������� (g)� The Chairman of 
the House Workforce Development Committee; 

��������� (h)� The Chairman of 
the Senate Economic Development Committee; 

��������� (i)� The Chairman of 
the Senate Labor Committee;� 

��������� (j)� A member of the 
Mississippi Community College Board; and

��������� (k)� A designee of the 
community-based nonprofit organization Mississippi Low�Income Child Care 
Initiative.

���� (3)� Appointments shall be 
made within thirty (30) days after the effective date of this act.� The 
committee shall hold its first meeting before August 1, 2019.� The Executive 
Director of the Department of Human Services or his/her designee shall serve as 
chairman of the Study Committee. 

���� (4)� A majority of the 
members of the committee s