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1	1	By: West S.B. No. 1730
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to minimum training standards for employees of certain
7	7	child-care facilities.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 42.0421, Human Resources
10	10	Code, is amended to read as follows:
11	11	(a) The minimum training standards prescribed by the
12	12	department under Section 42.042(p) for an employee of a day-care
13	13	center or group day-care home must include:
14	14	(1) 16 [eight] hours of initial training that must be
15	15	completed not later than the 90th day after the employee's first day
16	16	of employment for an employee of a day-care center who has no
17	17	previous training or less than two years of employment experience
18	18	in a regulated child-care facility, eight hours of which must [to]
19	19	be completed before the employee is given responsibility for a
20	20	group of children;
21	21	(2) 17 [15] hours of annual training for each employee
22	22	of a day-care center or group day-care home, excluding the
23	23	director, which must include at least six hours of training in one
24	24	or more of the following areas:
25	25	(A) child growth and development;
26	26	(B) guidance and discipline;
27	27	(C) age-appropriate curriculum; and
28	28	(D) teacher-child interaction; and
29	29	(3) 30 [20] hours of annual training for each director
30	30	of a day-care center or group day-care home, which must include at
31	31	least six hours of training in one or more of the following areas:
32	32	(A) child growth and development;
33	33	(B) guidance and discipline;
34	34	(C) age-appropriate curriculum; and
35	35	(D) teacher-child interaction.
36	36	SECTION 2. Section 42.0426, Human Resources Code, is
37	37	amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
38	38	(c) Not later than the seventh day after the date an
39	39	employee begins employment at a child-care facility, the employee
40	40	must complete an orientation to the facility.
41	41	SECTION 3. (a) Subdivision (1), Subsection (a), Section
42	42	42.0421, Human Resources Code, as amended by this Act, and
43	43	Subsection (c), Section 42.0426, Human Resources Code, as added by
44	44	this Act, apply only to an employee who is initially employed by a
45	45	child-care facility on or after the effective date of this Act. An
46	46	employee who is initially employed by a child-care facility before
47	47	that date is subject to the law in effect immediately before the
48	48	effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in
49	49	effect for that purpose.
50	50	(b) Subdivisions (2) and (3), Subsection (a), Section
51	51	42.0421, Human Resources Code, as amended by this Act, apply to an
52	52	employee or director of a child-care facility regardless of the
53	53	date the person began employment with or service as director of the
54	54	child-care facility.
55	55	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.