Bill Text: TX SB1279 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to designated emergency infant care providers for certain abandoned children.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/15 [SB1279 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1279-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 1279 |
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relating to designated emergency infant care providers for certain | ||
abandoned children. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 262.301(1), Family Code, as amended by | ||
S.B. No. 219, Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
(1) "Designated emergency infant care provider" | ||
means: | ||
(A) an emergency medical services provider; | ||
(B) a hospital; [ |
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(C) a freestanding emergency medical care | ||
facility licensed under Chapter 254, Health and Safety Code; or | ||
(D) a child-placing agency licensed by the | ||
Department of Family and Protective Services under Chapter 42, | ||
Human Resources Code, that: | ||
(i) agrees to act as a designated emergency | ||
infant care provider under this subchapter; and | ||
(ii) has on staff a person who is licensed | ||
as a registered nurse under Chapter 301, Occupations Code, or who | ||
provides emergency medical services under Chapter 773, Health and | ||
Safety Code, and who will examine and provide emergency medical | ||
services to a child taken into possession by the agency under this | ||
subchapter. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to an | ||
exception asserted to an offense under Section 22.041, Penal Code, | ||
regardless of when the offense was committed, but only if the trial | ||
for the offense commences on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1279 passed the Senate on | ||
April 30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1279 passed the House on | ||
May 19, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, two | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |