89R4040 AMF-D
By: Menéndez S.B. No. 173
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to training requirements for and prohibited
discrimination by child-care facilities and registered family
homes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.042(e), Human Resources Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(e) The executive commissioner 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 based on race or
disability 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;
(7) prevent the breakdown of foster care and adoptive
placement;
(8) ensure that a child-care facility or registered
family home:
(A) follows the directions of a child's physician
or other health care provider in providing specialized medical
assistance required by the child; and
(B) maintains for a reasonable time a copy of any
directions from the physician or provider that the parent provides
to the facility or home; and
(9) ensure that a child's health, safety, and welfare
are adequately protected on the grounds of a child-care facility or
registered family home.
SECTION 2. Section 42.0421, Human Resources Code, is
amended by adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) to read as follows:
(a-1) The initial training described by Subsection (a)(1)
must include training on:
(1) trauma-informed care; and
(2) behavioral health that includes:
(A) methods for:
(i) understanding and managing behaviors;
(ii) requesting a behavioral health
consultation; and
(iii) providing behavioral health support
to all children who are provided care; and
(B) a description of the impact autism and other
intellectual and developmental disabilities have on behavior and
communication.
(a-2) The annual training described by Subsection (a)(2)
must include training on care provided to children with special
needs and methods for:
(1) identifying possible developmental delays;
(2) locating community resources for the children;
(3) providing effective communication to the
children's parents; and
(4) accommodating the special needs of children in the
day-care center or group day-care home.
SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
Services Commission shall adopt the rules necessary to implement
the changes in law made by this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.