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.