Sec. 262.301.  DEFINITIONS.  In 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.
Amended by: 
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 1.165, eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 260 (S.B. 1279), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2015.
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1143 (S.B. 780), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.