By: West, Shapiro S.B. No. 260
(In the Senate - Filed December 15, 2010; January 31, 2011,
read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
Services; April 11, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0;
April 11, 2011, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 260 By: West
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to minimum training standards for employees of certain
child-care facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.0421, Human Resources Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (f) to
read as follows:
(a) The minimum training standards prescribed by the
department under Section 42.042(p) for an employee of a day-care
center or group day-care home must include:
(1) 24 [eight] hours of initial training that must be
completed not later than the 90th day after the employee's first day
of employment for an employee of a day-care center who has no
previous training or less than two years of employment experience
in a regulated child-care facility, eight hours of which must [to]
be completed before the employee is given responsibility for a
group of children;
(2) 24 [15] hours of annual training for each employee
of a day-care center or group day-care home, excluding the
director, which must include at least six hours of training in one
or more of the following areas:
(A) child growth and development;
(B) guidance and discipline;
(C) age-appropriate curriculum; and
(D) teacher-child interaction; and
(3) 30 [20] hours of annual training for each director
of a day-care center or group day-care home, which must include at
least six hours of training in one or more of the following areas:
(A) child growth and development;
(B) guidance and discipline;
(C) age-appropriate curriculum; and
(D) teacher-child interaction.
(f) In adopting the minimum training standards under
Section 42.042(p), the department may not require more training
hours than the number of hours prescribed by Subsection (a).
SECTION 2. Section 42.0426, Human Resources Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) Not later than the seventh day after the date an
employee begins employment at a child-care facility, the employee
must complete an orientation to the facility.
SECTION 3. (a) Subdivision (1), Subsection (a), Section
42.0421, Human Resources Code, as amended by this Act, and
Subsection (c), Section 42.0426, Human Resources Code, as added by
this Act, apply only to an employee who is initially employed by a
child-care facility on or after the effective date of this Act. An
employee who is initially employed by a child-care facility before
that date is subject to the law in effect immediately before the
effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
(b) Subdivisions (2) and (3), Subsection (a), Section
42.0421, Human Resources Code, as amended by this Act, apply to an
employee or director of a child-care facility regardless of the
date the person began employment with or service as director of the
child-care facility.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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