By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1469
 
  (Noble, Cook, Garcia)
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to requiring certain information before being employed by
  a child-care facility.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Human Resources Code,
  is amended by adding Section 42.0563 to read as follows:
         Sec. 42.0563.  PRE-EMPLOYMENT AFFIDAVIT. (a) An applicant
  for a position with a child-care facility must submit, using a form
  adopted by the department, a pre-employment affidavit disclosing
  whether the applicant has ever been charged with, adjudicated for,
  or convicted of having an inappropriate relationship with a minor.
         (b)  An applicant who answers affirmatively concerning an
  inappropriate relationship with a minor must disclose in the
  affidavit all relevant facts pertaining to the charge,
  adjudication, or conviction, including, for a charge, whether the
  charge was determined to be true or false.
         (c)  An applicant is not precluded from being employed based
  on a disclosed charge if the employing entity determines based on
  the information disclosed in the affidavit that the charge was
  false.
         (d)  A determination that an employee failed to disclose
  information required to be disclosed by an applicant under this
  section is grounds for termination of employment.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.