86R20239 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 commission [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 commission [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 commission [department] shall charge each
child-care facility a fee in the amount of $35 for an initial
license. The commission [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 commission [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 commission [department] issues the
child-care facility's initial license and on the anniversary of
that date.
(d) The commission [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 commission [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 commission [department] shall charge each family
home that is listed or registered with the commission [department]
an annual fee to cover a part of the commission'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
commission [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.