Bill Text: TX SB708 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to collection and use of child safety data for licensed day-care centers.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB708 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB708-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to collection and use of child safety data for licensed day-care centers.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB708 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB708-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Zaffirini, et al. | S.B. No. 708 | |
| (Raney, Hinojosa, Clardy, Meza, Meyer, et al.) | ||
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| relating to collection and use of child safety data for licensed | ||
| day-care centers. | ||
| 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 42.0412 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 42.0412. COLLECTION OF LICENSED DAY-CARE CENTER DATA. | ||
| (a) In this section, "group of children" and "specified age" are | ||
| determined by the formula provided in the commission's minimum | ||
| standards for child-care centers. | ||
| (b) The commission, in collaboration with the department | ||
| and using existing resources, shall collect, compile, and publish | ||
| on the commission's Internet website the following data aggregated | ||
| by child age on reported incidents in licensed day-care centers | ||
| that threaten or impair the basic health, safety, or welfare of a | ||
| child: | ||
| (1) the number of incidents investigated by the | ||
| commission or department and assigned the commission's highest | ||
| priority; | ||
| (2) the number of incidents investigated by the | ||
| commission or department and assigned the commission's | ||
| second-highest priority; | ||
| (3) the number of violations; | ||
| (4) the number of confirmed serious injuries to | ||
| children; and | ||
| (5) the number of child fatalities. | ||
| (c) During each monitoring inspection of a licensed | ||
| day-care center the commission conducts, the commission, using | ||
| existing resources, shall collect the following data for each group | ||
| of children four years of age and younger in the day-care center: | ||
| (1) the specified age of the children in the group; | ||
| (2) the number of children in the group; and | ||
| (3) the number of caregivers supervising the children | ||
| in the group. | ||
| (d) The commission shall make the data collected under this | ||
| section available to persons researching the factors related to | ||
| child injury, maltreatment, and death in licensed day-care centers | ||
| on request. | ||
| (e) The commission, using existing resources, shall provide | ||
| an annual report to the legislature that includes: | ||
| (1) the number of confirmed serious injuries and | ||
| fatalities for children four years of age and younger that occurred | ||
| at each licensed day-care center, including information collected | ||
| by the department, aggregated by the age of the injured or deceased | ||
| child; | ||
| (2) the priority assigned to the investigation | ||
| conducted by the commission or department in response to an | ||
| incident that resulted in a serious injury or child fatality; | ||
| (3) the number of investigations conducted by the | ||
| commission or department at each licensed day-care center involving | ||
| a child four years of age or younger that were assigned the highest | ||
| priority or second-highest priority, aggregated by the age of the | ||
| youngest affected child; and | ||
| (4) the number of violations the commission found at | ||
| each licensed day-care center during investigations described by | ||
| Subdivision (3). | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 42.042, Human Resources Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (m-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (m-1) Not later than January 1, 2021, the executive | ||
| commissioner shall review the data collected under Section 42.0412 | ||
| and prepare and submit to the legislature a report that includes | ||
| recommendations regarding modifications to the minimum standards | ||
| by age group to enhance child safety. This subsection expires | ||
| September 1, 2023. | ||
| SECTION 3. Notwithstanding Section 42.0412(d), Human | ||
| Resources Code, as added by this Act, the Health and Human Services | ||
| Commission is not required to comply with that subsection until | ||
| January 31, 2020. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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. | ||
