Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 42.04271 · Subchapter C. REGULATION OF CERTAIN FACILITIES, HOMES, AND AGENCIES
RIGHTS OF PARENT OR GUARDIAN WITH CHILD IN CERTAIN CHILD-CARE FACILITIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This section applies only to a day-care center, group day-care home, before-school program, after-school program, school-age program, or registered family home.
(b) A parent or guardian of a child at a child-care facility has the right to:
(1) enter and examine the child-care facility during the facility's hours of operation without advance notice;
(2) file a complaint against the child-care facility;
(3) review the child-care facility's publicly accessible records;
(4) review the child-care facility's written records concerning the parent's or guardian's child;
(5) receive from the child-care facility the commission's inspection reports for the child-care facility and information about how to access the child-care facility's compliance history online;
(6) have the child-care facility comply with a court order preventing another parent or guardian from visiting or removing the parent's or guardian's child;
(7) be provided the contact information for the division responsible for regulating the child-care facility, including the division's name, address, and phone number;
(8) inspect any video recordings of an alleged incident of abuse or neglect involving the parent's or guardian's child, provided that:
(A) video recordings of the alleged incident are available;
(B) the parent or guardian of the child is not allowed to retain any part of the video recording depicting a child who is not the parent's or guardian's child; and
(C) the parent or guardian of any other child captured in the video recording receives notice from the facility under Subsection (c);
(9) obtain a copy of the child-care facility's policies and procedures;
(10) review, on the request of the parent or guardian, the facility's:
(A) staff training records; and
(B) any in-house staff training curriculum used by the facility; and
(11) be free from any retaliatory action by the child-care facility for exercising any of the parent's or guardian's rights.
(c) Before allowing a parent or guardian to inspect a video recording under Subsection (b)(8), a child-care facility must provide written notice to the parent or guardian of any other child captured in the video recording.
(d) This section does not affect the ability of a law enforcement agency or the department to access a video recording as part of an investigation of an incident depicted in the video recording.
(e) A child-care facility shall provide the parent or guardian of the child with a written copy of the rights listed in Subsection (b) not later than the child's first day at the facility.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1158 (S.B. 1098), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HR/htm/HR.42.htm
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