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      By Greenberg                                    H.B. No. 2875

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of the Department of Protective and

 1-3     Regulatory Services to prescribe minimum training for persons

 1-4     employed in licensed child care facilities.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 42.042, Human Resources Code, is amended

 1-7     by adding new subsection (m) to read as follows:

 1-8           (m)  The department shall by rule prescribe minimum training

 1-9     standards for persons employed in regulated child care facilities.

1-10     The department shall assist owners and operators of child care

1-11     facilities in providing the required training by offering training

1-12     materials developed by the department to the facilities, training

1-13     institutions or such other providers who would deliver the required

1-14     training.  The development and dissemination of the training

1-15     materials shall be at the department's cost.  Further, the

1-16     department shall assist facilities applying for training funds from

1-17     other agencies in order to lower the cost of training to the

1-18     facility owners and operators.  The training required under this

1-19     section shall follow the employee and the department may not

1-20     mandate the employee to repeat the required training if the

1-21     employee has received the required training within the time period

1-22     specified by department rule.

1-23           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.