Bill Text: TX HB1682 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to collection and use of child safety data for licensed day-care centers.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-30 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1682 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1682-Comm_Sub.html
86R24068 SCL-F | |||
By: Raney, Hinojosa, Clardy, Meza, Meyer, | H.B. No. 1682 | ||
et al. | |||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1682: | |||
By: Rose | C.S.H.B. No. 1682 |
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relating to collection and use of child safety data for licensed | ||
day-care centers. | ||
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 42.0412 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 42.0412. COLLECTION OF LICENSED DAY-CARE CENTER DATA. | ||
(a) In this section, "group of children" and "specified age" are | ||
determined by the formula provided in the commission's minimum | ||
standards for child-care centers. | ||
(b) The commission, in collaboration with the department | ||
and using existing resources, shall collect, compile, and publish | ||
on the commission's Internet website the following data aggregated | ||
by child age on reported incidents in licensed day-care centers | ||
that threaten or impair the basic health, safety, or welfare of a | ||
child: | ||
(1) the number of incidents investigated by the | ||
commission or department and assigned the commission's highest | ||
priority; | ||
(2) the number of incidents investigated by the | ||
commission or department and assigned the commission's | ||
second-highest priority; | ||
(3) the number of violations; | ||
(4) the number of confirmed serious injuries to | ||
children; and | ||
(5) the number of child fatalities. | ||
(c) During each monitoring inspection of a licensed | ||
day-care center the commission conducts, the commission, using | ||
existing resources, shall collect the following data for each group | ||
of children four years of age and younger in the day-care center: | ||
(1) the specified age of the children in the group; | ||
(2) the number of children in the group; and | ||
(3) the number of caregivers supervising the children | ||
in the group. | ||
(d) The commission shall make the data collected under this | ||
section available to persons researching the factors related to | ||
child injury, maltreatment, and death in licensed day-care centers | ||
on request. | ||
(e) The commission, using existing resources, shall provide | ||
an annual report to the legislature that includes: | ||
(1) the number of confirmed serious injuries and | ||
fatalities for children four years of age and younger that occurred | ||
at each licensed day-care center, including information collected | ||
by the department, aggregated by the age of the injured or deceased | ||
child; | ||
(2) the priority assigned to the investigation | ||
conducted by the commission or department in response to an | ||
incident that resulted in a serious injury or child fatality; | ||
(3) the number of investigations conducted by the | ||
commission or department at each licensed day-care center involving | ||
a child four years of age or younger that were assigned the highest | ||
priority or second-highest priority, aggregated by the age of the | ||
youngest affected child; and | ||
(4) the number of violations the commission found at | ||
each licensed day-care center during investigations described by | ||
Subdivision (3). | ||
SECTION 2. Section 42.042, Human Resources Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (m-1) to read as follows: | ||
(m-1) Not later than January 1, 2021, the executive | ||
commissioner shall review the data collected under Section 42.0412 | ||
and prepare and submit to the legislature a report that includes | ||
recommendations regarding modifications to the minimum standards | ||
by age group to enhance child safety. This subsection expires | ||
September 1, 2023. | ||
SECTION 3. Notwithstanding Section 42.0412(d), Human | ||
Resources Code, as added by this Act, the Health and Human Services | ||
Commission is not required to comply with that subsection until | ||
January 31, 2020. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |