Bill Text: TX SB260 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to minimum training standards for employees or operators of certain child-care facilities and registered family homes.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB260 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB260-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 260

AN ACT
relating to minimum training standards for employees or operators
of certain child-care facilities and registered family homes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.0421, Human Resources Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (f) and
(g) to read as follows:
(a) The minimum training standards prescribed by the
department under Section 42.042(p) for an employee, director, or
operator of a day-care center, [or] group day-care home, or
registered family home must include:
(1) 24 [eight] hours of initial training that must be
completed not later than the 90th day after the employee's first day
of employment for an employee of a day-care center who has no
previous training or less than two years of employment experience
in a regulated child-care facility, eight hours of which must [to]
be completed before the employee is given responsibility for a
group of children;
(2) 24 [15] hours of annual training for each employee
of a day-care center or group day-care home, excluding the
director, which must include at least six hours of training in one
or more of the following areas:
(A) child growth and development;
(B) guidance and discipline;
(C) age-appropriate curriculum; and
(D) teacher-child interaction; and
(3) 30 [20] hours of annual training for each director
of a day-care center or group day-care home, or operator of a
registered family home, which must include at least six hours of
training in one or more of the following areas:
(A) child growth and development;
(B) guidance and discipline;
(C) age-appropriate curriculum; and
(D) teacher-child interaction.
(f) In adopting the minimum training standards under
Section 42.042(p), the department may not require more training
hours than the number of hours prescribed by Subsection (a) for a
day-care center, group day-care home, or a registered family home.
(g) The executive commissioner by rule shall adopt minimum
training standards for before-school or after-school and
school-age programs as required by Section 42.042(p). In adopting
minimum training standards for before-school or after-school and
school-age programs under this subsection, the executive
commissioner may not require more initial or annual training hours
than the number of hours required by Subsection (a) immediately
before September 1, 2011.
SECTION 2. Section 42.0426, Human Resources Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) Not later than the seventh day after the date an
employee begins employment at a day-care center, group day-care
home, or registered family home, the employee must complete an
orientation to the facility.
SECTION 3. (a) Subdivision (1), Subsection (a), Section
42.0421, Human Resources Code, as amended by this Act, and
Subsection (c), Section 42.0426, Human Resources Code, as added by
this Act, apply only to an employee who is initially employed by a
child-care facility on or after the effective date of this Act. An
employee who is initially employed by a child-care facility before
that date is subject to the law in effect immediately before the
effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
(b) Subdivisions (2) and (3), Subsection (a), Section
42.0421, Human Resources Code, as amended by this Act, apply to an
employee or director of a child-care facility regardless of the
date the person began employment with or service as director of the
child-care facility.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 260 passed the Senate on
April 21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 23, 2011, by the
following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 260 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147,
Nays 1, one present not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
______________________________
Governor