By Swinford, Davis, Johnson, Romo, Kubiak H.B. No. 1301
74R5597 CLG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the membership of the State Advisory Committee on
1-3 Child-Care Administrators and Facilities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 42.022(b) and (c), Human Resources Code,
1-6 are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) Members of the committee serve for terms of two years
1-8 expiring on February 1 of each odd-numbered year.
1-9 (c) The <board shall appoint the> advisory committee is
1-10 composed of 12 members appointed by the board. The members must
1-11 have the following qualifications <to provide for balanced
1-12 representation for>:
1-13 (1) two must be parents, guardians, or custodians of
1-14 children who use the facilities;
1-15 (2) two must be representatives of child advocacy
1-16 groups;
1-17 (3) two must be operators of the facilities;
1-18 (4) two must be experts in various professional fields
1-19 that are relevant to child care and development; <and>
1-20 (5) two must be members of the general public; and
1-21 (6) two must be operators of child-care facilities
1-22 that are licensed under this chapter.
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-24 SECTION 3. (a) The terms of the current members of the
2-1 State Advisory Committee on Child-Care Administrators and
2-2 Facilities expire on the date on which a majority of the new
2-3 members have been appointed.
2-4 (b) On September 1, 1995, or as soon as possible after that
2-5 date, the Texas Board of Human Services shall appoint new members
2-6 to the advisory committee to accomplish the membership plan for the
2-7 advisory committee established by Section 42.022(c), Human
2-8 Resources Code, as amended by this Act, for terms expiring February
2-9 1, 1997.
2-10 (c) The changes in law made by this Act to the
2-11 qualifications of the members of the advisory committee apply only
2-12 to members appointed on or after the effective date of this Act.
2-13 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.