Bill Text: TX HB2360 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the licensing and regulation of certain residential educational child-care facilities serving victims of human trafficking.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-15 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB2360 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2360-Engrossed.html
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| By: Thompson of Harris | H.B. No. 2360 | |
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| relating to the licensing and regulation of certain residential | ||
| educational child-care facilities serving victims of human | ||
| trafficking. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 42.041, Human Resources Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: | ||
| (h) Notwithstanding Subsection (b)(7), a residential | ||
| educational facility that is accredited by an accreditation body | ||
| that is a member of the Texas Private School Accreditation | ||
| Commission and operates primarily for educational purposes for | ||
| prekindergarten and above shall comply with the licensing | ||
| requirements of Subsection (a) and all department rules and minimum | ||
| standards applicable to general residential operations that | ||
| provide services to persons who are victims of human trafficking | ||
| under Section 20A.02, Penal Code, if: | ||
| (1) at any point during the academic year more than | ||
| either 25 children at the facility or 30 percent of the children at | ||
| the facility are victims of human trafficking; and | ||
| (2) the facility provides or intends to provide | ||
| specialized services designed to treat and support trafficking | ||
| victims in addition to providing basic child care services. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
