By: West, Shapiro  S.B. No. 260
         (In the Senate - Filed December 15, 2010; January 31, 2011,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
  Services; April 11, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
  April 11, 2011, sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 260 By:  West
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to minimum training standards for employees of certain
  child-care facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 42.0421, Human Resources Code, is
  amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (f) to
  read as follows:
         (a)  The minimum training standards prescribed by the
  department under Section  42.042(p) for an employee of a day-care
  center or group day-care 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;
                     (C)  age-appropriate curriculum; and
                     (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, 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;
                     (C)  age-appropriate curriculum; and
                     (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).
         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 child-care facility, the employee
  must complete an orientation to the facility.
         SECTION 3.  (a)  Subdivision (1), Subsection (a), Section
  42.0421, Human Resources Code, as amended by this Act, and
  Subsection (c), Section 42.0426, 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)  Subdivisions (2) and (3), Subsection (a), Section
  42.0421, 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.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
 
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