Section 746.1801 - Do I need additional caregivers when I take children away from the child-care center for field trips or walks?(a) When children are on a field trip and are mixing with children and adults who are not from your child-care center, such as during trips to the skating rink, shopping center, public or amusement park, you must meet the following child/caregiver ratio: Attached Graphic
(b) The child/caregiver ratio for a field trip to a location where children mix with non-center children and adults may include adult volunteers or child-care center employees who do not meet the minimum qualifications for caregivers specified in Subchapter D of this chapter (relating to Personnel) if you maintain at least the classroom child/caregiver ratio required in the following, as applicable: (1) Division 2 of this subchapter (relating to Classroom Ratios and Group Sizes for Centers Licensed to Care for 13 or More Children); or(2) Division 3 of this subchapter (relating to Classroom Ratios and Group Sizes for Centers When 12 or Fewer Children are in Care).(c) When children are on a walk or field trip in an enclosed, controlled area, such as specially arranged trips for children in your child-care center only to a fire station, library, or museum, you must maintain at least the classroom child/caregiver ratio. Refer to § 746.2101 of this subchapter (relating to Must I have additional caregivers for wading activities?) and § 746.2105 of this subchapter (relating to What are the child/caregiver ratios for swimming activities?) for child/caregiver ratios for wading and swimming activities when children are not mixing with other children and adults.26 Tex. Admin. Code § 746.1801
The provisions of this §746.1801 adopted to be effective September 1, 2003, 28 TexReg 1402; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 37, September 13, 2024, TexReg 7357, eff. 9/26/2024