BILL ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 434

By: Parker

Human Services

Committee Report (Substituted)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Certain child-care providers do not require their staff to follow the directions of a child's physician or health care provider for providing specialized care. While certain acts would be an offense under state law, minimum standards for child-care facilities do not currently address this issue.

C.S.H.B. 434 amends current law relating to the minimum standards for licensed child-care facilities and registered family homes.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 434 amends the Human Resources Code to include, in the minimum standards applicable to licensed child-care facilities and registered family homes that the Department of Family and Protective Services is required to promulgate, standards that will ensure that a child-care facility or registered family home follows the directions of a child's physician or other health care provider in providing specialized medical assistance required by the child and maintains for a reasonable time a copy of any directions from the physician or provider that the parent provides to the facility or home. 

C.S.H.B. 434 provides a short title, Paisley's Law, for purposes of citing its provisions.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2011.

COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE

C.S.H.B. 434 adds a provision not included in the original to include among the minimum standards for a child-care facility or registered family home that the Department of Family and Protective Services is required to promulgate standards that ensure the facility or home maintains for a reasonable time a copy of any directions from a child's physician or health care provider that the parent provides to the facility or home.