Bill Text: TX SB1327 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to authorizing a day-care center to employ an interim director.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1327 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1327-Enrolled.html
 
 
  S.B. No. 1327
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to authorizing a day-care center to employ an interim
  director.
         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 42.04201 to read as follows:
         Sec. 42.04201.  INTERIM DIRECTOR. (a) If a candidate to
  serve as the director of a day-care center operating under an
  initial license under Section 42.051 meets all the qualifications
  for a director prescribed by department rules except for the
  education requirements, the candidate may serve as interim director
  of the day-care center for not longer than 12 months while the
  candidate completes the requisite education or obtains a waiver to
  the education requirement authorized by commission rule.
         (b)  If the interim director completes the education
  requirements prescribed by the department or obtains a waiver to
  the education requirement before the end of the 12th month after the
  date the person began serving as interim director, the interim
  director may become the director of the day-care center.
         (c)  If the interim director fails to complete the education
  requirements prescribed by the department or obtain a waiver to the
  education requirement before the end of the 12th month after the
  date the person began serving as interim director, the day-care
  center shall employ a new director.
         SECTION 2.  Section 42.0761(a), Human Resources Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  An owner or operator of a day-care center commits an
  offense if the owner or operator knowingly operates the day-care
  center:
               (1)  without a director who meets the qualifications of
  a director prescribed by department rules or an interim director
  under Section 42.04201; or
               (2)  without the routine presence during the day-care
  center's hours of operation of a director or an interim director
  described by Subdivision (1).
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1327 passed the Senate on
  May 3, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1327 passed the House on
  May 24, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 110, Nays 28, one
  present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor
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