85R2478 MCK-D
By: Burkett H.B. No. 740
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to application and license fees for certain child-care
facilities and child-placing agencies.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 42.054(a), (b), (c), (d), and (e),
Human Resources Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The department shall charge an applicant a
nonrefundable application fee of $35 for an initial license to
operate a child-care facility or a child-placing agency.
(b) The department shall charge each child-care facility a
fee of $35 for an initial license. The department shall charge each
child-placing agency a fee of $50 for an initial license.
(c) The department shall charge each licensed child-care
facility an annual license fee in the amount of $35 plus $1 for each
child the child-care facility is permitted to serve. The fee is due
on the date on which the department issues the child-care
facility's initial license and on the anniversary of that date.
(d) The department shall charge each licensed child-placing
agency an annual license fee of $100. The fee is due on the date on
which the department issues the child-placing agency's initial
license and on the anniversary of that date.
(e) The department shall charge each family home that is
listed or registered with the department an annual fee to cover a
part of the department's cost in regulating family homes. The
amount of the fee is $20 for a listed home or $35 for a registered
home. The fee is due on the date on which the department initially
lists or registers the home and on the anniversary of that date.
SECTION 2. Section 42.054(h), Human Resources Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
an application fee paid or license fee due on or after the effective
date of this Act. An application fee paid or license fee due before
that date is governed by the law in effect on the date the fee was
paid or due, as applicable, and that law is continued in effect for
that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.