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The Sunshine Cottage Preschool & Development Center

A licensed child care center in Buda, Texas 78610

402 Lewis Ln, Buda, Texas 78610. (512) 312-4816.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 20, 2026.

The last 24 months 13 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2025. Most serious: High. Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean5
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
Texas’s risk levels
Texas gives each child care deficiency a risk level, by how likely it is to harm a child: Low, Medium Low, Medium, Medium High or High. High is its most serious. Source: Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child Care Regulation.
Licence status
Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

13 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 124 child care providers in Hays County had 2.

20 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 14, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the report to the state on Nov 21, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Report Situation Placing Children at Risk, at the report to the state on Nov 21, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk, at the report to the state on Nov 21, 2024

2 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

13 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 20, 2026.

13 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

Each deficiency, in Texas’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the risk level Texas gave it, from Low to High.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.

Feb 6, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “Two classes with children under 2 years old were watching screens during my walk through.”

    Rule 746.2207(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 6, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 18, 2025.

Feb 5, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Handwashing Procedures

    “Caregivers stated that they were told to use baby wipes instead of handwashing while the sink was being repaired.”

    Rule 746.3419. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 28, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 18, 2025.

Nov 21, 2024: report to the state4 deficiencies

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “The operation had a fire drill, and a child was left unsupervised in the classroom while the others evacuated.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 13, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 19, 2024.

  • Report Situation Placing Children at Risk

    “Operation staff did not report to Child Care Regulation that they left a child unsupervised during a fire drill.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 13, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 19, 2024.

  • Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk

    “Operation staff did not notify parents that a child was left unsupervised during a fire drill.”

    Rule 746.307(b)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 13, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 19, 2024.

  • Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form - Situations Placing Children at Risk

    “The operation did not provide an incident report to parents after their child was left unsupervised during a fire drill.”

    Rule 746.701(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 13, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 19, 2024.

Nov 20, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “One caregiver was not on their people list. She was asked to leave while I was on campus. It was advised to run her background as soon as possible so she can come back to work once her background check is approved.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 20, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 19, 2024.

Nov 6, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “One caregiver was not on their people list. She left during my visit.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 6, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 22, 2024.

Nov 5, 2024: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Written Activity Plans - Plan Followed by Caregiver

    “Activity plans were not posted and followed by caregivers during a period where the operation was short staffed.”

    Rule 746.2203(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 12, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 19, 2024.

  • Posting Requirements - Daily menu, including all snacks and meals served by the child care center

    “The weekly menu was has not been posted regularly for parents to review.”

    Rule 746.401(6). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 12, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 19, 2024.

Oct 30, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “One child did not have an updated immunization record.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 7, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 19, 2024.

Dec 5, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Six Inches if Equipment 5 Ft or Less

    “The loose fill in the big playground at the main building B, was under the required 6 inches.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 22, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 25, 2024.

  • Children’s Products- Annual Certification

    “The last signed product certificate was in 2021”

    Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 5, 2023.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Aug 2, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling

    “During an investigation it was found that a caregiver used prohibited punishment when a child was grabbed and pulled.”

    Rule 746.2805(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 28, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 1, 2023.

Jan 5, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records

    “Of the 10 staff files reviewed, 5 had incomplete annual training hours.”

    Rule 746.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 19, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 19, 2023.

Jul 20, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Supervision of Children

    “It was found during the investigation a child was able to exit the operation and enter the parking lot. The caregiver chased after the child to retrieve them and left the rest of the class unsupervised.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 17, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 22, 2022.

Apr 22, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone

    “A caregiver who did not have a background check ran was present and supervising children. The caregiver left during the inspection.”

    Rule 745.621(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 22, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 22, 2022.

All 29 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 14, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 26, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 1, 2025InspectionOutcome pending
Mar 18, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 6, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 5, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Dec 19, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 22, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 21, 2024Report to the state4 deficiencies cited
Nov 20, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 16, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 8, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 8, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 6, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 5, 2024Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Oct 30, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 3, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 26, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 25, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 5, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 1, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 4, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 2, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jan 5, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 28, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 22, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jul 21, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jul 20, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Apr 22, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 30, 2015.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 139 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 9 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.

Who owns it?

  • Texas’s open data doesn’t list owners.

How is it rated?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 124 child care providers in Hays County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 13.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 124 in Hays County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
The Sunshine Cottage Preschool & Development Center This child care provider13
Carpenter Hill Early Learning Center7
Jack C Hays High School Child Development Center0
Barton Middle School Early Learning Ctr.5
The Learning Experience6
Buda Early Learning Center0
Pfluger Eac YMCA1
Tom Green Eac YMCA1
Elm Grove Eac YMCA8
Buda Elementary Eac YMCA3
Kiddie Academy of Buda18
Sunfield Eac YMCA1

What the record doesn’t say

  • Texas doesn’t publish whether a complaint was substantiated.
  • Texas rates some paperwork slips as High risk, so read what was actually cited.
  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.

Sources

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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Oct 20, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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