By: Blanco S.B. No. 1327
(Rose)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorizing a day-care center to employ an interim
director.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Human Resources Code,
is amended by adding Section 42.04201 to read as follows:
Sec. 42.04201. INTERIM DIRECTOR. (a) If a candidate to
serve as the director of a day-care center operating under an
initial license under Section 42.051 meets all the qualifications
for a director prescribed by department rules except for the
education requirements, the candidate may serve as interim director
of the day-care center for not longer than 12 months while the
candidate completes the requisite education or obtains a waiver to
the education requirement authorized by commission rule.
(b) If the interim director completes the education
requirements prescribed by the department or obtains a waiver to
the education requirement before the end of the 12th month after the
date the person began serving as interim director, the interim
director may become the director of the day-care center.
(c) If the interim director fails to complete the education
requirements prescribed by the department or obtain a waiver to the
education requirement before the end of the 12th month after the
date the person began serving as interim director, the day-care
center shall employ a new director.
SECTION 2. Section 42.0761(a), Human Resources Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) An owner or operator of a day-care center commits an
offense if the owner or operator knowingly operates the day-care
center:
(1) without a director who meets the qualifications of
a director prescribed by department rules or an interim director
under Section 42.04201; or
(2) without the routine presence during the day-care
center's hours of operation of a director or an interim director
described by Subdivision (1).
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.