Sec. 260.003. MODEL STANDARDS. The executive commissioner shall develop and publish in the Texas Register model standards for the operation of a boarding home facility relating to: (1) the construction or remodeling of a boarding home facility, including plumbing, heating, lighting, ventilation, and other housing conditions, to ensure the residents' health, safety, comfort, and protection from fire hazard; (2) sanitary and related conditions in a boarding home facility and its surroundings, including insect and rodent control, water supply, sewage disposal, food handling, and general hygiene to ensure the residents' health, safety, and comfort; (3) the reporting and investigation of injuries, incidents, and unusual accidents and the establishment of other policies and procedures necessary to ensure resident health and safety; (4) assistance with self-administering medication; (5) requirements for in-service education of the facility's staff; (6) criminal history record checks; and (7) assessment and periodic monitoring to ensure that a resident: (A) does not require the boarding home facility to provide personal care, nursing, or other services not listed in Section 260.001 (2); and (B) is capable of self-administering medication or is aware of what the resident's medications look like and knows when the medications should be taken but requires assistance with self-administering medication. Redesignated and amended from Health and Safety Code, Section 254.003 by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 91 (S.B. 1303 ), Sec. 27.002(6), eff. September 1, 2011.
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