1-1     By:  Zaffirini                                          S.B. No. 52
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed November 13, 2000; January 10, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
 1-4     Services; February 19, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable
 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0;
 1-6     February 19, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 52                    By:  Nelson
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to a requirement that child-care facilities post certain
1-11     signs.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 42.055, Human Resources
1-14     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-15           (a)  Each child-care facility shall post in a location that
1-16     is conspicuous to all employees and customers a sign that includes:
1-17                 (1)  a description of the provisions of the Family Code
1-18     relating to the duty to report child abuse or neglect; [and]
1-19                 (2)  a description of the penalties for violating the
1-20     reporting provisions of the Family Code; and
1-21                 (3)  a brief description of sudden infant death
1-22     syndrome, shaken-baby syndrome, and childhood diabetes and methods
1-23     for preventing those phenomena.
1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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