The commission may not issue a citation to or take any other disciplinary action against a general residential operation or a child-placing agency for failing to employ a licensed child-care administrator or licensed child-placing administrator, as appropriate, if the operation or agency has:

1. (1) been without an administrator for less than 60 days; and
2. (2) made substantial efforts to hire a qualified administrator.

Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 621 (S.B. 1896), Sec. 22, eff. June 14, 2021.