Amend SB 260 (house committee printing) by striking all below the enacting clause and substituting the following:

SECTION 1. Section 42.0421, Human Resources Code, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows:

(a) The minimum training standards prescribed by the department under Section 42.042(p) for an employee, director, or operator of a day-care center, [or] group day-care home, or registered family home must include:

(1) 24 [~~eight~~] hours of initial training that must be completed not later than the 90th day after the employee's first day of employment for an employee of a day-care center who has no previous training or less than two years of employment experience in a regulated child-care facility, eight hours of which must [to] be completed before the employee is given responsibility for a group of children;

(2) 24 [15] hours of annual training for each employee of a day-care center or group day-care home, excluding the director, which must include at least six hours of training in one or more of the following areas:

(A) child growth and development;

(B) guidance and discipline;

(D) teacher-child interaction; and

(3) 30 [20] hours of annual training for each director of a day-care center or group day-care home, or operator of a registered family home, which must include at least six hours of training in one or more of the following areas:

(A) child growth and development;

(B) guidance and discipline;

(D) teacher-child interaction.

(f) In adopting the minimum training standards under Section 42.042(p), the department may not require more training hours than the number of hours prescribed by Subsection (a) for a day-care center, group day-care home, or a registered family home.

(g) The executive commissioner by rule shall adopt minimum training standards for before-school or after-school and school-age programs as required by Section 42.042(p). In adopting minimum training standards for before-school or after-school and school-age programs under this subsection, the executive commissioner may not require more initial or annual training hours than the number of hours required by Subsection (a) immediately before September 1, 2011.

SECTION 2. Section 42.0426, Human Resources Code, is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

(c) Not later than the seventh day after the date an employee begins employment at a day-care center, group day-care home, or registered family home, the employee must complete an orientation to the facility.

SECTION 3. (a) Section 42.0421(a)(1), Human Resources Code, as amended by this Act, and Section 42.0426(c), Human Resources Code, as added by this Act, apply only to an employee who is initially employed by a child-care facility on or after the effective date of this Act. An employee who is initially employed by a child-care facility before that date is subject to the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

(b) Sections 42.0421(a)(2) and (3), Human Resources Code, as amended by this Act, apply to an employee or director of a child-care facility regardless of the date the person began employment with or service as director of the child-care facility.

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