By: Parker, Button (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 2224
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 2009;
May 18, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
and Human Services; May 22, 2009, reported adversely, with
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; May 22, 2009, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2224 By: Nelson
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the minimum standards for licensed child-care
facilities and registered family homes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as Paisley's Law.
SECTION 2. Section 42.042(e), Human Resources Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(e) The department shall promulgate minimum standards that
apply to licensed child-care facilities and to registered family
homes covered by this chapter and that will:
(1) promote the health, safety, and welfare of
children attending a facility or registered family home;
(2) promote safe, comfortable, and healthy physical
facilities and registered family homes for children;
(3) ensure adequate supervision of children by
capable, qualified, and healthy personnel;
(4) ensure adequate and healthy food service where
food service is offered;
(5) prohibit racial discrimination by child-care
facilities and registered family homes;
(6) require procedures for parental and guardian
consultation in the formulation of children's educational and
therapeutic programs; [and]
(7) prevent the breakdown of foster care and adoptive
placement; and
(8) ensure that a child-care facility or registered
family home follows the written directives from a child's physician
or other health care professional licensed under the Occupations
Code when providing specialized medical assistance required by the
child.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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