Bill Text: TX SB262 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to training requirements and prohibited discrimination for child-care facilities and registered family homes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-03 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB262 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB262-Introduced.html
| 87R2250 MCK-D | ||
| By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 262 | |
|
|
||
|
|
||
| relating to training requirements and prohibited discrimination | ||
| for 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 [ |
||
| 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; and | ||
| (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. | ||
| 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 | ||
| classroom. | ||
| 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, 2021. | ||
