Tex. Health & Safety Code § 168.004 · Chapter 168. CARE OF STUDENTS WITH DIABETES
UNLICENSED DIABETES CARE ASSISTANT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) At each school in which a student with diabetes is enrolled, the school principal shall:
(1) seek school employees who are not health care professionals to serve as unlicensed diabetes care assistants and care for students with diabetes; and
(2) make efforts to ensure that the school has:
(A) at least one unlicensed diabetes care assistant if a full-time nurse is assigned to the school; and
(B) at least three unlicensed diabetes care assistants if a full-time nurse is not assigned to the school.
(b) An unlicensed diabetes care assistant shall serve under the supervision of the principal.
(c) A school employee may not be subject to any penalty or disciplinary action for refusing to serve as an unlicensed diabetes care assistant.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1022 (H.B. 984), Sec. 1, eff. June 18, 2005.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.168.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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