By: Nelson S.B. No. 428
(In the Senate - Filed February 7, 2013; February 13, 2013,
read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
Services; February 26, 2013, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; February 26, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to background and criminal history checks for parents or
other relatives of children in residential child-care facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.056, Human Resources Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the director, owner,
or operator of a residential child-care facility is not required to
submit to the department the information required under that
subsection for use in conducting a background and criminal history
check on a parent or other relative of a child who is a client in
care at the facility if:
(1) the department has on file for the parent or
relative a background and criminal history check; and
(2) the background and criminal history check was
conducted within the two-year period preceding the date the parent
or relative visits the client at the facility.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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