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.