Bill Text: TX SB1469 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring certain information before being employed by a child-care facility.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-19 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1469 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1469-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1469 | ||
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| relating to requiring certain information before being employed by | ||
| a child-care facility. | ||
| 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 42.0563 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 42.0563. PRE-EMPLOYMENT AFFIDAVIT. (a) An applicant | ||
| for a position with a child-care facility must submit, using a form | ||
| adopted by the department, a pre-employment affidavit disclosing | ||
| whether the applicant has ever been charged with, adjudicated for, | ||
| or convicted of having an inappropriate relationship with a minor. | ||
| (b) An applicant who answers affirmatively concerning an | ||
| inappropriate relationship with a minor must disclose in the | ||
| affidavit all relevant facts pertaining to the charge, | ||
| adjudication, or conviction, including, for a charge, whether the | ||
| charge was determined to be true or false. | ||
| (c) An applicant is not precluded from being employed based | ||
| on a disclosed charge if the employing entity determines based on | ||
| the information disclosed in the affidavit that the charge was | ||
| false. | ||
| (d) A determination that an employee failed to disclose | ||
| information required to be disclosed by an applicant under this | ||
| section is grounds for termination of employment. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1469 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 20, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1469 passed the House on | ||
| May 4, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 1, one present | ||
| not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
