By: Nelson	S.B. No. 428
	(In the Senate - Filed February 7, 2013; February 13, 2013,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
	Services; February 26, 2013, reported favorably by the following
	vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; February 26, 2013, sent to printer.)

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to background and criminal history checks for parents or
	other relatives of children in residential child-care facilities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 42.056, Human Resources Code, is amended
	by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
	(a-1)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the director, owner,
	or operator of a residential child-care facility is not required to
	submit to the department the information required under that
	subsection for use in conducting a background and criminal history
	check on a parent or other relative of a child who is a client in
	care at the facility if:
	(1)  the department has on file for the parent or
	relative a background and criminal history check; and
	(2)  the background and criminal history check was
	conducted within the two-year period preceding the date the parent
	or relative visits the client at the facility.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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