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House Bill 1615 |
House Author: Brown |
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Effective: 9-1-11 |
Senate Sponsor: Ogden et al. |
House Bill 1615 amends the Human Resources Code to prohibit a director, owner, operator, caretaker, employee, or volunteer of certain child-care facilities from administering a medication to a child unless a parent or guardian submits a signed authorization to administer the medication for not longer than one year and the medication has not expired and is administered according to the label or written instructions of a practitioner. The bill specifies the circumstances under which a child may be administered medication without such an authorization and exempts from its provisions the administration of medication to a child in certain medical emergencies. The bill makes it a Class A misdemeanor to administer a medication to a child in violation of the bill.