By: Pickett, Raymond, Taylor of Collin H.B. No. 3051
(Senate Sponsor - Rodriguez)
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2011;
May 3, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
and Human Services; May 13, 2011, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 13, 2011, sent to printer.)
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 county with a population of 800,000
or more that is adjacent to an international border.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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