By:  Turner, S.                                       H.B. No. 1114
       73R3342 JMM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the requirement that a licensed child care facility
    1-3  have certain liability insurance coverage.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Human Resources Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 42.0491 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 42.0491.  LIABILITY INSURANCE REQUIRED.  (a)  A license
    1-8  holder shall maintain not less than $15,000 in liability insurance
    1-9  coverage for each child for whom the license holder provides care.
   1-10  An insurance policy or contract required under this section must
   1-11  cover injury to a child that occurs while the child is on the
   1-12  premises of the license holder or in the care of the license
   1-13  holder.
   1-14        (b)  A license holder shall file with the division a
   1-15  certificate or other evidence from an insurance company showing
   1-16  that the license holder has an unexpired and uncancelled insurance
   1-17  policy or contract that meets the requirements of this section.
   1-18        (c)  The insurance policy or contract shall be maintained at
   1-19  all times in an amount as required by this section.  Failure by a
   1-20  license holder to renew the policy or contract or to maintain the
   1-21  policy or contract in the required amount is a ground for
   1-22  suspension or revocation of the license holder's license under this
   1-23  chapter.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
    2-1  applies only to an application for the issuance or renewal of a
    2-2  license by a child care facility filed on or after that date.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.