By: Pickett, Raymond, Taylor of Collin H.B. No. 3051

(Senate Sponsor - Rodriguez)

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2011; May 3, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services; May 13, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 13, 2011, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the provision of child care by certain facilities exempt from child-care licensing requirements.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 42.041, Human Resources Code, is amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:

(f) A child-care facility that is exempt under Subsection (b)(3) from the licensing requirement of Subsection (a) may provide care for each child at the child-care facility for not more than 15 hours a week if the child-care facility:

(1) provides the child care so that a person may attend an educational class provided by a nonprofit entity; and

(2) is located in a county with a population of 800,000 or more that is adjacent to an international border.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.

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