Bill Text: TX SB564 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to collecting data regarding unaccompanied minors in certain child-care facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-21 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB564 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB564-Introduced.html
| 86R9309 MM-D | ||
| By: Rodríguez, Alvarado | S.B. No. 564 | |
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| relating to collecting data regarding unaccompanied minors in | ||
| certain child-care facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.0412 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.0412. DATA REGARDING UNACCOMPANIED MINORS IN | ||
| CERTAIN CHILD-CARE FACILITIES. (a) In this section, | ||
| "unaccompanied minor" means a child described by 6 U.S.C. Section | ||
| 279(g). | ||
| (b) The commission shall collect the following statistical | ||
| information for each unaccompanied minor in the care of a | ||
| residential child-care facility, as defined by Section 42.002, | ||
| Human Resources Code, licensed by the commission: | ||
| (1) the child's gender; | ||
| (2) the child's age; | ||
| (3) the child's country of origin; | ||
| (4) whether the child has a disability; and | ||
| (5) whether the facility primarily provides care for | ||
| children under the age of five. | ||
| (c) Identifying information about an unaccompanied minor | ||
| collected under this section is confidential and is not subject to | ||
| disclosure under Chapter 552. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
