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.