746.303: Report Number of Employees
This standard covers reporting the number of employees who left the operation during the previous calendar year. Recent citations in Sugar Land describe operations that did not report that information.
Checking a daycare in Sugar Land, Texas
DaycareList lists 87 child care operations in Sugar Land, including 63 licensed centers and 24 home-based operations. From 2023-10-10 through 2026-10-10, state records show 642 citations across all operation types. Among licensed centers, 61 had at least one citation during that period and 2 had no citations during that period.
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Provider totals and citation counts include all providers, including providers omitted from listings for personal-name privacy or suppression requests.
Citations dated October 10, 2023 to October 10, 2026.
Providers by type
| Provider type | Providers |
|---|---|
| Licensed Centers | 63 |
| Licensed Child-Care Homes | 7 |
| Listed Family Homes | 4 |
| Registered Child-Care Homes | 13 |
Citations by HHSC risk level
| Risk weight | Citations |
|---|---|
| High | 128 |
| Medium High | 231 |
| Medium | 216 |
| Medium Low | 59 |
| Low | 8 |
| Unknown | 0 |
Most cited standards in this city
| Standard | Title | Citations | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 746.303 | Report Number of Employees | 32 | 27 |
| 746.5101 | Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months | 21 | 11 |
| 746.4135 | Children's Products- Annual Certification | 18 | 14 |
| 746.3407 | Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment | 14 | 11 |
| 746.501 | Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights | 14 | 13 |
| 745.641 | AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation | 13 | 11 |
| 746.3407 | Mark Cleaning Supplies, Toxic Materials; Keep Separate from Food and Inaccessible to Children | 12 | 8 |
| 746.605 | Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact | 12 | 12 |
| 746.613 | Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current | 12 | 9 |
| 746.1205 | Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity | 11 | 10 |
ZIP codes by provider count
| ZIP | Providers |
|---|---|
| 77479 | 36 |
| 77498 | 32 |
| 77478 | 19 |
How to check the record
- Go to the Texas HHSC public child care search page (link below).
- Search for the daycare by name or location to find its listing.
- Open the operation details page and the inspection and compliance history page. DaycareList provider pages link to both pages.
- Read the citations listed for the operation, noting the risk weight assigned to each standard and whether the citation was corrected at the inspection.
- Read the narrative in each citation record to see what the inspector found.
- Compare the dates of inspections and citations over the years covered by the state records.
- Ask the provider questions about specific citations you read in the record.
- Report errors on a DaycareList page through the corrections page. DaycareList data is refreshed from the state through the Texas Open Data Portal; the state's own record is authoritative.
Reading records
- deficiency (citation)
- A finding that a minimum standard was not met during an inspection, investigation, or assessment.
- risk levels
- HHSC assigns each standard a risk weight of High, Medium High, Medium, Medium Low, or Low.
- corrected at inspection
- A citation record may show whether the deficiency was fixed at the time of the inspection.
- correction date
- The date shown on a citation record for when the correction was made.
- correction verified
- A citation record may show a date the correction was verified.
- technical assistance
- A citation record may show whether technical assistance was given.
- inspection vs investigation vs assessment
- Records published by the state include inspections, investigations, and assessments, along with the deficiencies cited during them.
- three-year window
- The period DaycareList uses when counting citations in its provider summaries. The state online records cover about the last five years.
- minimum standards
- The rules operations must follow. For centers they are in Texas Administrative Code Title 26, Chapter 746; for licensed and registered homes, Chapter 747. The governing statute is Texas Human Resources Code Chapter 42.
Cited standards
746.5101: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months
This standard covers a fire inspection before the initial permit is issued and an annual fire inspection afterward. Recent citations in Sugar Land describe annual fire marshal inspections that were not conducted.
746.4135: Children's Products- Annual Certification
This standard covers annual certification of children's products. Recent citations in Sugar Land describe certification that had not been completed or was not available for review.
746.3407: Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment
This standard covers maintenance of the building, grounds, and equipment. Recent citations in Sugar Land describe uneven playground surfacing, tall grass, broken playground toys, openings in fences, and water stains on ceiling tiles.
746.501: Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights
This standard covers including parent rights in written operational policies. Recent citations in Sugar Land describe policies that did not include parent rights.
745.641: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation
This standard covers receiving notification of background check results before allowing a person to be present at the operation. Recent citations in Sugar Land describe people working with or having access to children while their background checks were pending or their status was not eligible.
746.3407: Mark Cleaning Supplies, Toxic Materials; Keep Separate from Food and Inaccessible to Children
This standard covers labeling cleaning supplies and toxic materials, keeping them separate from food, and keeping them out of children's reach. Recent citations in Sugar Land describe unlabeled cleaning bottles and cleaning products within children's reach.
746.605: Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact
This standard covers emergency contact information collected when a child is admitted. Recent citations in Sugar Land describe missing emergency contacts, missing contact addresses, and missing contacts other than a parent.
This guide's text was drafted automatically, checked against the state records by a second automated reviewer, and spot-checked by hand; all counts are computed directly from the state data. It may contain errors. The official state record is authoritative. Records reflect only deficiencies published by the state after due process. This page does not rate or rank providers.
Data as of October 10, 2026. Corrections and removal requests