Bill Text: TX HB3199 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to requiring certain information before being employed by a child-care facility.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-03 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB3199 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3199-Comm_Sub.html
88R2426 MLH-F | ||
By: Noble, Cook | H.B. No. 3199 |
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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. |