1-1     By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 558
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 17, 1999; February 18, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Human Services;
 1-4     March 25, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; March 25, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 558                 By:  Gallegos
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to training requirements for certain child-care providers.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Human Resources Code,
1-13     is amended by adding Section 42.0421 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 42.0421.  MINIMUM TRAINING STANDARDS.  (a)  The minimum
1-15     training standards prescribed by the department under Section
1-16     42.042(p) for an employee of a day-care center or group day-care
1-17     home must include:
1-18                 (1)  eight hours of initial training for an employee of
1-19     a day-care center who has no previous training or employment
1-20     experience in a regulated child-care facility, to be completed
1-21     before the employee is given responsibility for a group of
1-22     children;
1-23                 (2)  15 hours of annual training for each employee of a
1-24     day-care center or group day-care home, excluding the director; and
1-25                 (3)  20 hours of annual training for each director of a
1-26     day-care center or group day-care home.
1-27           (b)  The minimum training standards prescribed by the
1-28     department under Section 42.042(p) must require an employee of a
1-29     licensed day-care center or group day-care home who provides care
1-30     for children younger than 24 months of age to receive special
1-31     training regarding the care of those children.  The special
1-32     training must include one hour of initial training in addition to
1-33     the training required by Subsection (a)(1) and one hour of annual
1-34     training as a component of the training required by Subsections
1-35     (a)(2) and (a)(3) on:
1-36                 (1)  recognizing and preventing shaken baby syndrome;
1-37                 (2)  preventing sudden infant death syndrome; and
1-38                 (3)  understanding early childhood brain development.
1-39           (c)  The department by rule shall require an operator of a
1-40     registered family home who provides care for a child younger than
1-41     24 months of age to complete one hour of annual training on:
1-42                 (1)  recognizing and preventing shaken baby syndrome;
1-43                 (2)  preventing sudden infant death syndrome; and
1-44                 (3)  understanding early childhood brain development.
1-45           (d)  Section 42.042(m) does not apply to the minimum training
1-46     standards required by this section.
1-47           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-48           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-49     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-50     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-51     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-52     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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