1-1 By: Moncrief S.B. No. 833 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2001; February 22, 2001, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; 1-4 March 29, 2001, rereferred to Committee on Health and Human 1-5 Services; April 4, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable 1-6 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; 1-7 April 4, 2001, sent to printer.) 1-8 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 833 By: Moncrief 1-9 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-10 AN ACT 1-11 relating to child-care services. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 42.0421, Human Resources 1-14 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-15 (a) The minimum training standards prescribed by the 1-16 department under Section 42.042(p) for an employee of a day-care 1-17 center or group day-care 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, 1-25 which must include at least six hours of training in one or more of 1-26 the following areas: 1-27 (A) child growth and development; 1-28 (B) guidance and discipline; 1-29 (C) age-appropriate curriculum; and 1-30 (D) teacher-child interaction; and 1-31 (3) 20 hours of annual training for each director of a 1-32 day-care center or group day-care home, which must include at least 1-33 six hours of training in one or more of the following areas: 1-34 (A) child growth and development; 1-35 (B) guidance and discipline; 1-36 (C) age-appropriate curriculum; and 1-37 (D) teacher-child interaction. 1-38 SECTION 2. Section 42.0442, Human Resources Code, is amended 1-39 by adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows: 1-40 (c) The interagency task force shall establish an inspection 1-41 checklist based on the inspection protocol developed under 1-42 Subsection (b). Each state agency that inspects a facility listed 1-43 in Subsection (a) shall use the inspection checklist in performing 1-44 an inspection. A state agency shall make a copy of the completed 1-45 inspection checklist available to the facility at the facility's 1-46 request to assist the facility in maintaining records. 1-47 (d) The department shall provide to facilities listed in 1-48 Subsection (a) information regarding inspections, including who may 1-49 inspect a facility and the purpose of each type of inspection. 1-50 SECTION 3. Subsection (b), Section 34.007, Education Code, 1-51 is amended to read as follows: 1-52 (b) In establishing and operating the transportation system, 1-53 the county or school district board: 1-54 (1) shall employ school bus drivers certified in 1-55 accordance with standards and qualifications adopted by the 1-56 Department of Public Safety; and 1-57 (2) may allow a parent to designate a child-care 1-58 facility, as defined by Section 42.002, Human Resources Code, 1-59 instead of the child's residence as the regular location for 1-60 purposes of obtaining transportation under the system to and from 1-61 the child's school. 1-62 SECTION 4. Section 42.155, Education Code, is amended by 1-63 adding Subsection (k) to read as follows: 1-64 (k) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the 2-1 commissioner may not reduce the allotment to which a district or 2-2 county is entitled under this section because the district or 2-3 county provides transportation for an eligible student to and from 2-4 a child-care facility, as defined by Section 42.002, Human 2-5 Resources Code, instead of the student's residence, as authorized 2-6 by Section 34.007, if the transportation is provided within the 2-7 approved routes of the district or county for the school the 2-8 student attends. 2-9 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 2-10 * * * * *