Bill Text: TX SB952 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 952 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to standards for nutrition, physical activity, and screen time for certain child-care facilities and homes.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB952 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB952-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Watson	S.B. No. 952
	(In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2019; March 1, 2019,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human
	Services; April 1, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable
	Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0;
	April 1, 2019, sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 952	By: Perry


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to standards for nutrition, physical activity, and screen
	time for certain child-care facilities and homes.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 42.042, Human Resources Code, is amended
	by adding Subsections (e-3) and (e-4) to read as follows:
	(e-3) The minimum standards for a day-care center or a
	registered family home adopted under Subsection (e) must be
	consistent with:
	(1) the most recent edition of the standards for
	physical activity and screen time as published by the American
	Academy of Pediatrics in Caring for Our Children: National Health
	and Safety Performance Standards; Guidelines for Early Care and
	Education Programs; and
	(2) the nutrition standards in the Child and Adult
	Care Food Program administered by the Department of Agriculture.
	(e-4) A day-care center or registered family home is not
	required to participate in or comply with the reporting
	requirements of the Child and Adult Care Food Program administered
	by the Department of Agriculture.
	SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
	of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
	Services Commission shall adopt the rules necessary to implement
	the changes in law made by this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.

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