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TITLE 26 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PART 1 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 747 - MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR CHILD-CARE HOMES
SUBCHAPTER C - RECORD KEEPING
SECTION/RULE §747.701 - What written records must I keep of accidents and injuries that occur at my child-care home?
Chapter Review Date 05/17/2024

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 caregiver 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 vehicle or not preventing a child from wandering away from the child-care home.

Source Note: The provisions of this §747.701 adopted to be effective September 1, 2003, 28 TexReg 1462; 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 2449; amended to be effective October 25, 2021, 46 TexReg 7219; amended to be effective March 1, 2023, 48 TexReg 950.

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