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.