Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 42.055 · Subchapter C. REGULATION OF CERTAIN FACILITIES, HOMES, AND AGENCIES
SIGN POSTING.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Each child-care facility shall post in a location that is conspicuous to all employees and customers a sign that includes:
(1) a description of the provisions of the Family Code relating to the duty to report child abuse or neglect;
(2) a description of the penalties for violating the reporting provisions of the Family Code; and
(3) a brief description of sudden infant death syndrome, shaken-baby syndrome, and childhood diabetes and methods for preventing those phenomena.
(a-1) A licensed day-care center, licensed group day-care home, or registered family home subject to Section 42.0423 shall include in the sign required under Subsection (a) a description of how to access a listing of unsafe children's products on the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission's Internet website or through the department's public Internet website.
(b) The executive commissioner by rule shall determine the design, size, and wording of the sign.
(c) The department shall provide the sign to each child-care facility without charge.
(d) A person who operates a child-care facility commits an offense if the department provides a sign to the facility as provided by this section and the person intentionally fails to display the sign in the facility as prescribed by this section. An offense under this subsection is a Class C misdemeanor.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., 1st C.S., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 7.47, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Renumbered from Human Resources Code Sec. 42.056 and amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1063, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 221, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 46 (S.B. 95), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2009.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 4.232, eff. April 2, 2015.
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