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. 1-53 * * * * *