1. (a) The Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services (TDPRS) must ensure that all Protective Services for Families and Children staff and foster parents who care for children in the department's conservatorship annually receive informational materials about the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), and universal precautions to prevent HIV transmission. Providers of 24-hour residential child care must ensure that their direct-care staff also receive such informational materials every year.
2. (b) When a child in TDPRS's conservatorship has AIDS, or when the results of a child's HIV-antibody testing have been confirmed as positive as specified in §700.1401(e) of this title (relating to Testing Children in TDPRS's Conservatorship for HlV Antibodies), the foster parents, 24-hour child-care providers, prospective adoptive parents, or relatives with whom the child has been placed (or with whom staff plan to place the child) must receive specialized information arranged for or provided by TDPRS. No child in TDPRS's conservatorship who is known to have AIDS or to have tested positive for HIV antibodies may be placed with a nonparental caregiver who has not received such specialized information.
3. (c) TDPRS may either directly provide the information required in subsections (a) and (b) of this section or secure the required information from local health departments, contracted family-planning agencies, or local programs that serve people with AIDS.

Source Note:The provisions of this §700.1405 adopted to be effective May 1, 1994, 19 TexReg 2125; amended to be effective August 1, 1996, 21 TexReg 3213.