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�	S.B.�No.�572

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�	AN ACT
�	relating to transportation safety training requirements for
�	certain child-care providers.
�	�������BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
�	�������SECTION�1.��This Act shall be known as Jacob's Law.
�	�������SECTION�2.��Section 42.0421, Human Resources Code, is
�	amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
�	�������(e)��In addition to other training required by this section,
�	the department by rule shall require an owner, operator, or
�	employee of a day-care center, group day-care home, registered
�	family home, child-care institution, foster group home, or agency
�	foster group home who transports a child under the care of the
�	facility whose chronological or developmental age is younger than
�	nine years of age to complete at least two hours of annual training
�	on transportation safety.
�	�������SECTION�3.��The executive commissioner of the Health and
�	Human Services Commission shall adopt the rules required by
�	Subsection (e), Section 42.0421, Human Resources Code, as added by
�	this Act, not later than March 1, 2010.
�	�������SECTION�4.��This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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�	______________________________	______________________________
�	���President of the Senate	Speaker of the House�����
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�	�������I hereby certify that S.B.�No.�572 passed the Senate on
�	March�25,�2009, by the following vote: Yeas�31, Nays�0; and that
�	the Senate concurred in House amendments on May�28,�2009, by the
�	following vote: Yeas�31, Nays�0.
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�	Secretary of the Senate����
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�	�������I hereby certify that S.B.�No.�572 passed the House, with
�	amendments, on May�19,�2009, by the following vote: Yeas�138,
�	Nays�6, one present not voting.
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�	Chief Clerk of the House���
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�	Approved:
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