HBA-BSM S.B. 833 77(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisS.B. 833 By: Moncrief Human Services 4/20/2001 Engrossed BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Under current Texas law, the minimum training standards for an employee or director of a child-care facility must include annual training classes. Also, there does not currently exist an inspection checklist for the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services (PRS) and other state agencies which inspect child-care facilities to follow, which may lead to an inefficient duplication of checks by various state agencies. In addition, the school transportation provisions do not specifically address having a school bus pickup and drop off a child at a child-care facility rather than at home. Senate Bill 833 sets forth specific areas to be included in the annual child care facility employee and director training, requires the development of a checklist for inspection of child care facilities, and authorizes school districts to pick up and drop off a child at day care. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS Senate Bill 833 amends the Human Resources Code to provide that the annual training given to employees and directors of a day care center or group day care home must include a total of six hours of training in child growth and development, guidance and discipline, age-appropriate curriculum, and teacher-child interaction. The bill requires the interagency task force formed by the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services (PRS), the Texas Department of Health, the Texas Department of Human Services, and the Texas Workforce Commission to establish an inspection checklist and requires each state agency that inspects a day care center, group day care home or family home to use the inspection checklist in performing an inspection. The bill also requires a state agency to make a copy of the completed inspection checklist available to such a facility on request to assist the facility in maintaining records. The bill also requires PRS to make information regarding inspections available to such facilities. S.B. 833 amends the Education Code to authorize a county or school district board to allow a parent to designate a child-care facility instead of the child's residence as the regular location for purposes of obtaining transportation to and from the child's school. The bill prohibits the commissioner of education from reducing the transportation allotment to which a district or county is entitled because the district or county provides transportation for an eligible student to and from a child care facility instead of the student's residence if the transportation is provided within the approved routes of the district or county for the school the student attends. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2001.