AN ACT
1-1 relating to training requirements for certain child-care providers.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Human Resources Code,
1-4 is amended by adding Section 42.0421 to read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 42.0421. MINIMUM TRAINING STANDARDS. (a) The minimum
1-6 training standards prescribed by the department under Section
1-7 42.042(p) for an employee of a day-care center or group day-care
1-8 home must include:
1-9 (1) eight hours of initial training for an employee of
1-10 a day-care center who has no previous training or employment
1-11 experience in a regulated child-care facility, to be completed
1-12 before the employee is given responsibility for a group of
1-13 children;
1-14 (2) 15 hours of annual training for each employee of a
1-15 day-care center or group day-care home, excluding the director; and
1-16 (3) 20 hours of annual training for each director of a
1-17 day-care center or group day-care home.
1-18 (b) The minimum training standards prescribed by the
1-19 department under Section 42.042(p) must require an employee of a
1-20 licensed day-care center or group day-care home who provides care
1-21 for children younger than 24 months of age to receive special
1-22 training regarding the care of those children. The special
1-23 training must be included as a component of the initial training
1-24 required by Subsection (a)(1) and as a one-hour component of the
2-1 annual training required by Subsections (a)(2) and (a)(3). The
2-2 special training must include information on:
2-3 (1) recognizing and preventing shaken baby syndrome;
2-4 (2) preventing sudden infant death syndrome; and
2-5 (3) understanding early childhood brain development.
2-6 (c) The department by rule shall require an operator of a
2-7 registered family home who provides care for a child younger than
2-8 24 months of age to complete one hour of annual training on:
2-9 (1) recognizing and preventing shaken baby syndrome;
2-10 (2) preventing sudden infant death syndrome; and
2-11 (3) understanding early childhood brain development.
2-12 (d) Section 42.042(m) does not apply to the minimum training
2-13 standards required by this section.
2-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2000.
2-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
S.B. No. 558
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 558 passed the Senate on
April 8, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0;
May 28, 1999, Senate refused to concur in House amendments and
requested appointment of Conference Committee; May 30, 1999, House
granted request of the Senate; May 30, 1999, Senate adopted
Conference Committee Report by a viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 558 passed the House, with
amendments, on May 25, 1999, by a non-record vote; May 30, 1999,
House granted request of the Senate for appointment of Conference
Committee; May 30, 1999, House adopted Conference Committee Report
by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor