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TITLE 26 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PART 1 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 746 - MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR CHILD-CARE CENTERS
SUBCHAPTER C - RECORD KEEPING
SECTION/RULE §746.701 - What written records must I keep of accidents and incidents that occur at my child-care center?
Chapter Review Date 04/04/2024

You must record the following information on the Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form 7239 or another form that contains at least the same information: (1) An injury to a child in care that required medical treatment by a health-care professional or hospitalization; (2) An illness that required the hospitalization of a child in care; (3) An incident where a child in care had an emergency anaphylaxis reaction that required administration of an unassigned epinephrine auto-injector;(4) An incident of a child in care or employee contracting a communicable disease deemed notifiable by the Texas Department of State Health Services, as specified in 25 TAC Chapter 97, Subchapter A (relating to Control of Communicable Diseases); and (5) Any other non-routine situation that placed, or may have placed, a child at risk for injury or harm, such as forgetting a child in a center vehicle or not preventing a child from wandering away from the child-care center unsupervised.

Source Note: The provisions of this §746.701 adopted to be effective September 1, 2003, 28 TexReg 1402; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909; amended to be effective April 25, 2021, 46 TexReg 2447; amended to be effective October 25, 2021, 46 TexReg 7218; amended to be effective March 1, 2023, 48 TexReg 933.

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