By Greenberg                                            H.B. No. 37
       74R895 CLG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to registration requirements for family homes.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 42.052(c), Human Resources Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (c)  <A family home that provides care for three or fewer
    1-7  children, excluding the caretaker's own children may register with
    1-8  the division.>  A family home that provides care for one <four> or
    1-9  more children, excluding the caretaker's own children, must
   1-10  register with the division.  A registration remains valid until
   1-11  revoked or surrendered.  The operator of a registered home must
   1-12  display the registration in a prominent place at the home.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.