86R706 MCK-D
By: Miller H.B. No. 2177
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to license terms and fees and registration and listing
fees for certain child-care facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.048(f), Human Resources Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(f) A license must be issued if the department determines
that a facility meets all requirements. The evaluation shall be
based on one or more visits to the facility and a review of required
forms and records. A license is valid until [the license expires,
is] revoked[,] or [is] surrendered.
SECTION 2. 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 in the amount of $35 for an initial
license to operate a child-care facility, a child-placing agency,
or a continuum-of-care residential operation.
(b) The department shall charge each child-care facility a
fee in the amount of $35 for an initial license. The department
shall charge each child-placing agency and continuum-of-care
residential operation a fee in the amount of $50 for an initial
license.
(c) The department shall charge each licensed child-care
facility an annual license fee in an amount equal to $35 plus $1
multiplied by the maximum number of children for whom the
child-care facility is authorized to provide care. 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 and continuum-of-care residential operation an annual
license fee in the amount of $100. The fee is due on the date on
which the department issues the initial license to the
child-placing agency or continuum-of-care residential operation
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 3. Sections 42.050 and 42.054(h), Human Resources
Code, are repealed.
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
an application fee paid or license fee or registration and listing
fee due on or after the effective date of this Act. An application
fee paid or license fee or registration and listing 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 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.