By: Hardcastle H.B. No. 3315
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to childcare facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.022, Human Resources Code, is amended
by adding the following subsection to be numbered accordingly:
(__) The department shall ensure that each child-care
facility that provides care for less than 24 hours a day complies
with the appropriate minimum standards relating to staff-child
ratios, group sizes, and square footage, as those minimum standards
existed on September 1, 2002. The department may not enforce new
standards in relation to staff-child ratios, group sizes, or square
footage that are more stringent than the 2002 standards for those
facilities. This subsection expires September 1, 2005.
(__) Prior to the expiration of subsection above the
department shall, within available appropriations, conduct a
comprehensive cost-benefit analysis and economic impact study that
includes families and licensed child-care providers.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect September 1, 2003.