Section 749.4153 - Must I provide pre-service training to a caregiver or an employee who was previously a caregiver or employee for another operation?(a) A child-placing agency does not have to provide additional general pre-service training or pre-service training regarding emergency behavior intervention to any caregiver or employee who is exempt from this training by § 749.867 of Title 40 (relating to Must I provide pre-service training to a caregiver or employee who was previously a caregiver or employee for a residential child-care operation?). In addition, a caregiver or employee (child-placing agency administrator, treatment director, child placement management staff, child placement staff, or full-time professional service provider) does not have to complete the five hours of pre-service training regarding complex trauma experienced by trafficking victims if the caregiver or employee: (1) During the last 12 months: (A) Worked in a general residential operation that provides trafficking victim services to 25 or more children, or to 30% or more of the operation's children in care; or(B) Was a caregiver or employee for or a child-placing agency that provides trafficking victim services to 30 or more children, or 50% or more of the CPA's children in care; and(2) Has documentation that the caregiver or employee has previously received the five hours of pre-service training.(b) You must document the exemption factors in the appropriate personnel record.26 Tex. Admin. Code § 749.4153
The provisions of this §749.4153 adopted to be effective December 1, 2014, 39 TexReg 9069; amended to be effective January 1, 2017, 41 TexReg 9944; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909