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Amend SB 68 (senate engrossment) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 4 of the bill, in the recital for that section (page 8, line 26), strike "Subsection (g-1)" and substitute
"Subsections (g-1) and (g-2)".
(2) In SECTION 4 of the bill, in amended Section 42.042,
Human Resources Code (page 9, between lines 18 and 19), insert the
following:
(g-2) The executive commissioner shall adopt specific rules
and minimum standards, including standards relating to background
check information, for a child-care facility that is located in a
temporary shelter, including a family violence shelter or homeless
shelter, in which an adult, accompanied by a child related to the
adult or a child for whom the adult is the managing conservator, may
temporarily reside and that provides care for less than 24 hours a
day for a child accompanying an adult temporarily residing in the
shelter while the adult is not present at the shelter. In adopting
the rules and minimum standards under this section, the executive
commissioner shall:
(1) consider the special circumstances and needs of
families that seek temporary shelter;
(2) consider the role of the shelter in assisting and
supporting families in crisis; and
(3) distinguish between a child-care facility that
provides care only for children temporarily residing in the shelter
and a child-care facility that also provides care for children who
are not temporarily residing in the shelter.
(3) In SECTION 16 of the bill, immediately after Subsection
(c) of that section (page 17, between lines 17 and 18), insert the
following:
(d) The change in law made by this Act by which a child-care
facility located in a temporary shelter that provides care only for
children temporarily residing in the shelter is required to be
licensed under Chapter 42, Human Resources Code, as amended by this
Act, takes effect on the later of:
(1) the date on which the executive commissioner of
the Health and Human Services Commission adopts minimum standards
for those child-care facilities under Section 42.042(g-2), Human
Resources Code, as added by this Act; or
(2) September 1, 2010.
(e) The change in law made by this Act by which a child-care
facility located in a temporary shelter that provides care for
children temporarily residing in the shelter and other children is
required to be licensed under Chapter 42, Human Resources Code, as
amended by this Act, takes effect on the effective date of this Act.
(f) The executive commissioner of the Health and Human
Services Commission shall adopt rules and minimum standards as
required by Section 42.042(g-2), Human Resources Code, as added by
this Act, as soon as practicable after the effective date of this
Act, but not later than September 1, 2010.