By Greenberg H.B. No. 3741
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to regulation by the Department of Protective and
1-3 Regulatory Services of certain child-care facilities, family homes,
1-4 and child-placing agencies.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 42.042(m), Human Resources Code, is
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 (m) In determining minimum standards relating to
1-9 staff-to-child ratios, group sizes, or square footage requirements
1-10 applicable to [for] nonresidential child-care facilities that
1-11 provide care for less than 24 hours a day, the department shall,
1-12 within available appropriations, conduct a comprehensive
1-13 cost-benefit analysis and economic impact study that includes
1-14 families and licensed child-care providers.
1-15 SECTION 2. Section 42.045(c), Human Resources Code, is
1-16 amended to read as follows:
1-17 (c) If a child-placing agency terminates operation as a
1-18 child-placing agency, it shall, after giving notice to the
1-19 department, transfer its files and records concerning adopted
1-20 children, their biological families, and their adoptive families to
1-21 the Bureau of Vital Statistics [department] or, after giving notice
2-1 to the Bureau of Vital Statistics, to a facility licensed by the
2-2 department to place children for adoption.
2-3 SECTION 3. Section 42.078(e), Human Resources Code, is
2-4 amended to read as follows:
2-5 (e) If the executive director determines that a violation
2-6 has occurred, the executive director may issue a recommendation on
2-7 the imposition of a penalty, including a recommendation on the
2-8 amount of the penalty.
2-9 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-10 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.