Bill Text: TX HB1808 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to standards for nutrition, physical activity, and screen time for certain child-care facilities and homes.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1808 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1808-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Lucio III, Miller | H.B. No. 1808 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1808: | |||
| By: Meza | C.S.H.B. No. 1808 | ||
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| 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. | ||
