Bill Text: TX HB3205 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of and federal funding for certain child-care providers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-01 - Left pending in committee [HB3205 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3205-Introduced.html
| By: Raymond | H.B. No. 3205 | |
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| relating to the regulation of and federal funding for certain | ||
| child-care providers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 42.0221, Human Resources Code, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsections | ||
| (e-1), (e-2), and (e-3) to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The committee on licensing standards is composed of nine | ||
| [seven] members appointed by the governor as follows: | ||
| (1) one member who operates a residential child-care | ||
| facility licensed by the department; | ||
| (2) one member who operates a child-placing agency | ||
| licensed by the department; | ||
| (3) one member who operates a licensed child-care | ||
| facility that provides care for children for less than 24 hours a | ||
| day; | ||
| (4) one member who is a parent, guardian, or custodian | ||
| of a child who uses a facility licensed by the department; | ||
| (5) one member who is an expert in the field of child | ||
| care and child development; [and] | ||
| (6) two members employed by the department who work | ||
| with facilities licensed by the department; and | ||
| (7) two members who represent child advocacy | ||
| organizations. | ||
| (b) Members of the committee serve two-year terms, with the | ||
| terms of [three or] four or five members, as appropriate, expiring | ||
| February 1 of each year. | ||
| (e-1) The committee shall review and analyze nationwide | ||
| best practices of child-care providers and other state standards | ||
| related to staff-to-child ratios and group sizes applicable to | ||
| nonresidential child-care facilities that provide care for less | ||
| than 24 hours a day and make recommendations to the department for | ||
| policy and statutory changes related to the ratios and group sizes. | ||
| (e-2) From the recommendations provided under Subsection | ||
| (e-1), the department shall annually reduce the staff-to-child | ||
| ratios and group sizes applicable to nonresidential child-care | ||
| facilities that provide care for less than 24 hours a day subject to | ||
| the following limitations: | ||
| (1) the reduced ratios and group sizes may not be | ||
| higher than the ratios and group sizes in the department's proposed | ||
| rules published in the Texas Register on June 11, 2010; | ||
| (2) ratios may not be reduced by more than three | ||
| children per each age group; and | ||
| (3) the staff-to-child ratios for children ages 17 | ||
| months of age and younger may not be reduced. | ||
| (e-3) Subsection (e-2) and this subsection expire September | ||
| 1, 2022. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than October 1, 2017, the governor | ||
| shall appoint the nine members to the committee on licensing | ||
| standards as provided by Section 42.0221, Human Resources Code, as | ||
| amended by this Act. The initial members of the committee on | ||
| licensing standards appointed under this section shall draw lots to | ||
| determine which members will serve terms expiring February 1, 2018, | ||
| and which members will serve terms expiring February 1, 2017. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
