(a) The commission shall develop a policy for obtaining, through appropriate methods, input from interested parties regarding its subsidized child care program and for using that input in administering that program.
(b) The policy developed under Subsection (a) must include methods for obtaining input from the Texas Education Agency, school districts, open-enrollment charter schools, subsidized child care providers, relevant businesses, and the public, regarding:
(1) improving coordination between the subsidized child care program and prekindergarten programs;
(2) increasing the quality of and access to the subsidized child care program;
(3) existing health and safety rules and regulations that could be more efficient or less costly without reducing health and safety outcomes; and
(4) the burdens relating to complying with existing regulations that could be mitigated, reduced, or eliminated while maintaining the intent, objective, or purpose of the underlying regulation.