1-1     By:  Greenberg, Swinford (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro)   H.B. No. 2875

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997;

 1-3     May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Health

 1-4     and Human Services; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to minimum training standards for an employee of a

 1-9     regulated child-care facility.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 42.042, Human Resources Code, is amended

1-12     by adding Subsection (p) to read as follows:

1-13           (p)  The department by rule shall prescribe minimum training

1-14     standards for an employee of a regulated child-care facility,

1-15     including the time required for completing the training.  The

1-16     department may not require an employee to repeat required training

1-17     if the employee has completed the training within the time

1-18     prescribed by department rule.  The department's local offices

1-19     shall make available at the local office locations a copy of the

1-20     rules regarding minimum training standards, information enabling

1-21     the owner or operator of a regulated facility to apply for training

1-22     funds from other agencies to lower facility costs, and any other

1-23     materials the department may develop to assist the owner or

1-24     operator or other entity in providing the training.

1-25           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-30     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-31     passage, and it is so enacted.

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