By: Pickett H.B. No. 3051
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the provision of child care by certain facilities
exempt from child-care licensing requirements.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.041, Human Resources Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) A child-care facility that is exempt under Subsection
(b)(3) from the licensing requirement of Subsection (a) may provide
care for each child at the child-care facility for not more than 15
hours a week if the child-care facility:
(1) provides the child care so that a person may attend
an educational class provided by a nonprofit entity; and
(2) is located in a municipality with a population of
800,000 or more that is adjacent to an international border.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.