By: Moncrief S.B. No. 833 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to child-care services. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 42.0421, Human Resources 1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) The minimum training standards prescribed by the 1-7 department under Section 42.042(p) for an employee of a day-care 1-8 center or group day-care 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, 1-16 which must include at least six hours of training in one or more of 1-17 the following areas: 1-18 (A) child growth and development; 1-19 (B) guidance and discipline; 1-20 (C) age-appropriate curriculum; and 1-21 (D) teacher-child interaction; and 1-22 (3) 20 hours of annual training for each director of a 1-23 day-care center or group day-care home, which must include at least 1-24 six hours of training in one or more of the following areas: 1-25 (A) child growth and development; 2-1 (B) guidance and discipline; 2-2 (C) age-appropriate curriculum; and 2-3 (D) teacher-child interaction. 2-4 SECTION 2. Section 42.0442, Human Resources Code, is amended 2-5 by adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows: 2-6 (c) The interagency task force shall establish an inspection 2-7 checklist based on the inspection protocol developed under 2-8 Subsection (b). Each state agency that inspects a facility listed 2-9 in Subsection (a) shall use the inspection checklist in performing 2-10 an inspection. A state agency shall make a copy of the completed 2-11 inspection checklist available to the facility at the facility's 2-12 request to assist the facility in maintaining records. 2-13 (d) The department shall provide to facilities listed in 2-14 Subsection (a) information regarding inspections, including who may 2-15 inspect a facility and the purpose of each type of inspection. 2-16 SECTION 3. Subsection (b), Section 34.007, Education Code, 2-17 is amended to read as follows: 2-18 (b) In establishing and operating the transportation system, 2-19 the county or school district board: 2-20 (1) shall employ school bus drivers certified in 2-21 accordance with standards and qualifications adopted by the 2-22 Department of Public Safety; and 2-23 (2) may allow a parent to designate a child-care 2-24 facility, as defined by Section 42.002, Human Resources Code, 2-25 instead of the child's residence as the regular location for 2-26 purposes of obtaining transportation under the system to and from 3-1 the child's school. 3-2 SECTION 4. Section 42.155, Education Code, is amended by 3-3 adding Subsection (k) to read as follows: 3-4 (k) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the 3-5 commissioner may not reduce the allotment to which a district or 3-6 county is entitled under this section because the district or 3-7 county provides transportation for an eligible student to and from 3-8 a child-care facility, as defined by Section 42.002, Human 3-9 Resources Code, instead of the student's residence, as authorized 3-10 by Section 34.007, if the transportation is provided within the 3-11 approved routes of the district or county for the school the 3-12 student attends. 3-13 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.