Bill Text: TX HB2177 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to license terms and fees and registration and listing fees for certain child-care facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-10 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB2177 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2177-Engrossed.html
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By: Miller | H.B. No. 2177 |
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relating to license terms and fees and registration and listing | ||
fees for certain child-care facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 42.048(f), Human Resources Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(f) A license must be issued if the commission [ |
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determines that a facility meets all requirements. The evaluation | ||
shall be based on one or more visits to the facility and a review of | ||
required forms and records. A license is valid until [ |
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SECTION 2. Sections 42.054(a), (b), (c), (d), and (e), | ||
Human Resources Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commission [ |
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nonrefundable application fee in the amount of $35 for an initial | ||
license to operate a child-care facility, a child-placing agency, | ||
or a continuum-of-care residential operation. | ||
(b) The commission [ |
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child-care facility a fee in the amount of $35 for an initial | ||
license. The commission [ |
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child-placing agency and continuum-of-care residential operation a | ||
fee in the amount of $50 for an initial license. | ||
(c) The commission [ |
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child-care facility an annual license fee in an amount equal to $35 | ||
plus $1 multiplied by the maximum number of children for whom the | ||
child-care facility is authorized to provide care. The fee is due | ||
on the date on which the commission [ |
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child-care facility's initial license and on the anniversary of | ||
that date. | ||
(d) The commission [ |
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child-placing agency and continuum-of-care residential operation | ||
an annual license fee in the amount of $100. The fee is due on the | ||
date on which the commission [ |
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license to the child-placing agency or continuum-of-care | ||
residential operation and on the anniversary of that date. | ||
(e) The commission [ |
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home that is listed or registered with the commission [ |
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an annual fee to cover a part of the commission's cost in regulating | ||
family homes. The amount of the fee is $20 for a listed home or $35 | ||
for a registered home. The fee is due on the date on which the | ||
commission [ |
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on the anniversary of that date. | ||
SECTION 3. Sections 42.050 and 42.054(h), Human Resources | ||
Code, are repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
an application fee paid or license fee or registration and listing | ||
fee due on or after the effective date of this Act. An application | ||
fee paid or license fee or registration and listing fee due before | ||
that date is governed by the law in effect on the date the fee was | ||
paid or due, as applicable, and that law is continued in effect for | ||
that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |