Tex. Lab. Code § 301.191 · Subchapter K. DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF CHILD-CARE FRAUD, WASTE, AND ABUSE
PREVENTION AND DETECTION OF CHILD-CARE FRAUD, WASTE, AND ABUSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission shall develop risk assessment protocols to identify and assess possible instances of fraud, waste, and abuse in child-care programs, including:
(1) the use of unemployment insurance wage records to identify:
(A) potential ineligible parents due to a change in income or underreporting of income;
(B) relative child-care providers who are engaged in other employment; and
(C) parents who do not have the required work history; and
(2) the identification of parents who apply for or receive child-care services in multiple workforce areas simultaneously.
(b) The commission shall ensure that local workforce development boards implement procedures to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse in child-care programs.
(c) The commission may use a motor vehicle record, including a photographic image and signature, to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse in child-care programs.
(d) The commission may use the information under Subsection (c) otherwise for enforcement under this title.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 869 (S.B. 76), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2011.
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