76R6656 KKA-D By Coleman, Naishtat H.B. No. 908 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 908: By Coleman C.S.H.B. No. 908 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to enforcement of screening requirements for vision, 1-3 hearing, and other special senses and communication disorders of 1-4 children in certain licensed child-care facilities. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Human Resources Code, 1-7 is amended by adding Section 42.0431 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 42.0431. ENFORCEMENT OF SCREENING REQUIREMENTS RELATING 1-9 TO VISION, HEARING, AND OTHER SPECIAL SENSES AND COMMUNICATION 1-10 DISORDERS. (a) The department, after consultation with the 1-11 Texas Department of Health, shall adopt rules necessary to ensure 1-12 that children receiving care at a day-care center or group day-care 1-13 home licensed under this chapter are screened for vision, hearing, 1-14 and any other special senses or communication disorders in 1-15 compliance with rules adopted by the Texas Board of Health under 1-16 Section 36.004, Health and Safety Code. 1-17 (b) Each day-care center or group day-care home licensed 1-18 under this chapter shall maintain individual screening records for 1-19 children attending the facility who are required to be screened, 1-20 and the department may inspect those records at any reasonable 1-21 time. 1-22 (c) This section does not apply to a day-care center or 1-23 group day-care home operating under a certificate issued by the 1-24 department under Subchapter E. 2-1 SECTION 2. The Department of Protective and Regulatory 2-2 Services shall adopt the rules required by Section 42.0431, Human 2-3 Resources Code, as added by this Act, as soon as possible after the 2-4 effective date of this Act. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.