Sec. 261.410.  REPORT OF ABUSE BY OTHER CHILDREN.  (a)  In this section:
(1)  "Physical abuse" means:
(A)  physical injury that results in substantial harm to the child requiring emergency medical treatment and excluding an accident or reasonable discipline by a parent, guardian, or managing or possessory conservator that does not expose the child to a substantial risk of harm; or
(B)  failure to make a reasonable effort to prevent an action by another person that results in physical injury that results in substantial harm to the child.
(2)  "Sexual abuse" means:
(A)  sexual conduct harmful to a child's mental, emotional, or physical welfare; or
(B)  failure to make a reasonable effort to prevent sexual conduct harmful to a child.
(b)  An agency that operates, licenses, certifies, or registers a facility shall require a residential child-care facility to report each incident of physical or sexual abuse committed by a child against another child.
(c)  Using information received under Subsection (b), the agency that operates, licenses, certifies, or registers a facility shall, subject to the availability of funds, compile a report that includes information:
(1)  regarding the number of cases of physical and sexual abuse committed by a child against another child;
(2)  identifying the residential child-care facility;
(3)  regarding the date each allegation of abuse was made;
(4)  regarding the date each investigation was started and concluded;
(5)  regarding the findings and results of each investigation; and
(6)  regarding the number of children involved in each incident investigated.
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 268 (S.B. 6), Sec. 1.31, eff. September 1, 2005.