1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to minimum training standards for an employee of a

 1-3     regulated child-care facility.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 42.042, Human Resources Code, is amended

 1-6     by adding Subsection (p) to read as follows:

 1-7           (p)  The department by rule shall prescribe minimum training

 1-8     standards for an employee of a regulated child-care facility,

 1-9     including the time required for completing the training.  The

1-10     department may not require an employee to repeat required training

1-11     if the employee has completed the training within the time

1-12     prescribed by department rule.  The department's local offices

1-13     shall make available at the local office locations a copy of the

1-14     rules regarding minimum training standards, information enabling

1-15     the owner or operator of a regulated facility to apply for training

1-16     funds from other agencies to lower facility costs, and any other

1-17     materials the department may develop to assist the owner or

1-18     operator or other entity in providing the training.

1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2875 was passed by the House on May

         2, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 134, Nays 8, 2 present, not

         voting.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2875 was passed by the Senate on May

         26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor