| (a) Except for a child receiving or needing protective
services as described in §809.49 of this chapter, for a child
to be eligible to receive child care services, at the time of eligibility
determination or redetermination, a Board shall ensure that the child:
(1) meets one of the following age requirements:
(A) be under 13 years of age; or
(B) be a child with disabilities under 19 years of
age;
(2) is a United States citizen or legal immigrant as
determined under applicable federal laws, regulations, and guidelines;
and
(3) resides with:
(A) a family within the Board's workforce area:
(i) whose income does not exceed 85 percent of the
state median income (SMI) for a family of the same size; and
(ii) whose assets do not exceed $1,000,000 as certified
by a family member; or
(iii) that meets the definition of experiencing homelessness
as defined in §809.2 of this chapter.
(B) parents who require child care in order to work,
including job search, or attend a job training or educational program;
or
(C) a person standing in loco parentis for the child
while the child's parent is on military deployment and the deployed
military parent's income does not exceed the limits set forth in subparagraph
(A) of this paragraph.
(b) A Board shall ensure that child care services while
the parent is enrolled full-time in a postsecondary undergraduate
educational program is provided for, but does not exceed, a cumulative
total of 60 months.
(c) A Board may establish a policy to allow parents
attending a program that leads to an undergraduate degree from an
institution of higher education to be exempt from residing with the
child as defined in §809.2 of this chapter.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §809.41 adopted to be effective January 29, 2007, 32 TexReg 336; amended to be effective June 22, 2009, 34 TexReg 4197; amended to be effective January 8, 2013, 38 TexReg 155; amended to be effective October 1, 2016, 41 TexReg 7529; amended to be effective October 3, 2022, 47 TexReg 6437 |
