By: Watson  S.B. No. 706
         (In the Senate - Filed February 8, 2019; March 1, 2019, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services;
  April 8, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 8, 2019,
  sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 706 By:  Seliger
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to an investigation unit within the Health and Human
  Services Commission for certain illegally operating child-care
  facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 531, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 531.0084 to read as follows:
         Sec. 531.0084.  INVESTIGATION UNIT FOR ILLEGALLY OPERATING
  CHILD-CARE FACILITIES. The executive commissioner shall maintain a
  unit within the child-care licensing division of the commission
  consisting of investigators whose primary responsibility is to:
               (1)  identify child-care facilities that are operating
  without a license, certification, registration, or listing
  required by Chapter 42, Human Resources Code; and
               (2)  initiate appropriate enforcement actions against
  those facilities.
         SECTION 2.  As soon as possible after the effective date of
  this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
  Services Commission shall establish the investigation unit
  required by Section 531.0084, Government Code, as added by this
  Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
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