Bill Text: TX SB798 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to license renewal applications for certain family residential centers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-01 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB798 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB798-Introduced.html
86R7715 SCL-D | ||
By: Alvarado | S.B. No. 798 |
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relating to license renewal applications for certain family | ||
residential 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 42.0505 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 42.0505. DENIAL OF CERTAIN APPLICATIONS FOR LICENSE | ||
RENEWAL. (a) This section applies only to a child-care facility | ||
licensed under this chapter that is a family residential center: | ||
(1) operated by or under a contract with United States | ||
Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce federal immigration | ||
laws; | ||
(2) in which each child at the center is detained with | ||
a parent or other adult family member who remains at the center; and | ||
(3) in which a parent or family member of a child | ||
provides the direct care for the child except for specific | ||
circumstances when the child is cared for directly by the center or | ||
another adult in the custody of the center. | ||
(b) The commission may deny an application for renewal of a | ||
family residential center license if the license holder is under | ||
investigation by a state agency of another state in the United | ||
States. | ||
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. |