By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 52
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a requirement that child-care facilities post certain
1-3 signs.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 42.055, Human Resources
1-6 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) Each child-care facility shall post in a location that
1-8 is conspicuous to all employees and customers a sign that includes:
1-9 (1) a description of the provisions of the Family Code
1-10 relating to the duty to report child abuse or neglect; [and]
1-11 (2) a description of the penalties for violating the
1-12 reporting provisions of the Family Code; and
1-13 (3) a brief description of sudden infant death
1-14 syndrome, shaken-baby syndrome, and childhood diabetes and methods
1-15 for preventing those phenomena.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.