86R25824 SCL-D
By: Button, Perez, Burrows, Hinojosa, Leach, H.B. No. 2786
et al.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to employee turnover reporting during a day-care center's,
group day-care home's, or registered family home's license or
registration renewal.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.050, Human Resources Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) The application for renewal of a day-care center or
group day-care home license must require the license holder to
disclose the total number of employees who left employment with the
license holder during the preceding calendar year.
SECTION 2. Section 42.052(f-1), Human Resources Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(f-1) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules
governing the certification and registration renewal process for
all certifications and registrations issued under this chapter. The
rules must include:
(1) renewal periods;
(2) a process for staggered renewals;
(3) a process for resolving a late application for
renewal;
(4) expiration dates; [and]
(5) conditions for renewal; and
(6) a requirement for a registered family home to
disclose the total number of employees who left employment with the
registration holder during the preceding calendar year.
SECTION 3. Section 42.025, Human Resources Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) In addition to the information required under
Subsection (a), the searchable database must include the employment
information disclosed under Sections 42.050(e) and 42.052(f-1)(6).
SECTION 4. As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement the
changes in law made by this Act.
SECTION 5. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
a license or registration renewed on or after the effective date of
this Act. A license or registration renewed before the effective
date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately
before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.