DEFINITIONS.
Tex. FAM Code § 262.301.
in effectIn this chapter:
(1) "Designated emergency infant care provider" means:
(A) an emergency medical services provider;
(B) a hospital;
(C) a freestanding emergency medical care facility licensed under Chapter 254 , Health and Safety Code;
(D) a child-placing agency licensed under Chapter 42 , Human Resources Code, that:
(i) agrees to act as a designated emergency infant care provider under this subchapter; and
(ii) has on staff a person who is licensed as a registered nurse under Chapter 301 , Occupations Code, or who provides emergency medical services under Chapter 773 , Health and Safety Code, and who will examine and provide emergency medical services to a child taken into possession by the agency under this subchapter; or
(E) a fire department.
(2) "Emergency medical services provider" has the meaning assigned that term by Section 773.003 , Health and Safety Code.
(3) "Fire department" means a department of a local government that is organized to prevent or suppress fires and is staffed 24 hours a day by employees of the local government.
(4) "Newborn safety device" means a device installed by a designated emergency infant care provider in compliance with Section 262.3025 .
Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 809, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.