Unless you are licensed to provide get-well care, you must not allow an ill child to attend your child-care center if one or more of the following exists:
(1) The illness prevents the child from participating comfortably in child-care center activities including outdoor play;
(2) The illness results in a greater need for care than caregivers can provide without compromising the health, safety, and supervision of the other children in care;
(3) The child has one of the following (unless a medical evaluation by a health-care professional indicates that you can include the child in the child-care center's activities):
(4) A health-care professional has diagnosed the child with a communicable disease, and the child does not have medical documentation to indicate that the child is no longer contagious.
Source Note: The provisions of this §746.3601 adopted to be effective September 1, 2003, 28 TexReg 1402; amended to be effective December 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 10238; amended to be effective April 15, 2017, 42 TexReg 1575; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909; amended to be effective March 1, 2023, 48 TexReg 933