Bill Text: TX SB706 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

---

Bill Title: Relating to an investigation unit within the Health and Human Services Commission for certain illegally operating child-care facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB706 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB706-Introduced.html

---

86R5587 MCK-D
By: Watson S.B. No. 706

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an investigation unit within the Health and Human
Services Commission for certain unlicensed child-care facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 531, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 531.0084 to read as follows:
Sec. 531.0084. INVESTIGATION UNIT FOR UNLICENSED
CHILD-CARE FACILITIES. (a) The executive commissioner shall
maintain a unit within the child-care licensing division of the
commission consisting of investigators whose primary
responsibility is to identify unlicensed child-care facilities and
to initiate appropriate enforcement actions against those
facilities.
(b) The executive commissioner shall assign at least 35
full-time equivalent positions for the unit described by Subsection
(a).
SECTION 2. As soon as possible after the effective date of
this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
Services Commission shall establish the investigation unit
required by Section 531.0084, Government Code, as added by this
Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.