Section 749.1957 - What other methods of punishment are prohibited?In addition to corporal punishment, prohibited discipline techniques include, but are not limited to:
(1) Any harsh, cruel, unusual, unnecessary, demeaning, or humiliating discipline or punishment;(2) Denial of mail or visits with their families as discipline or punishment;(3) Threatening with the loss of placement as discipline or punishment;(4) Using sarcastic or cruel humor;(5) Maintaining an uncomfortable physical position, such as kneeling, or holding his arms out;(6) Pinching, pulling hair, biting, or shaking a child;(7) Putting anything in or on a child's mouth;(8) Humiliating, shaming, ridiculing, rejecting, or yelling at a child;(9) Subjecting a child to abusive or profane language;(10) Placing a child in a dark room, bathroom, or closet;(11) Requiring a child to remain silent or inactive for inappropriately long periods of time for the child's age;(12) Confining a child to a highchair, box, or other similar furniture or equipment as discipline or punishment;(13) Denying basic child rights as a form of discipline or punishment;(14) Withholding food that meets the child's nutritional requirements; and(15) Using or threatening to use emergency behavior intervention as discipline or punishment.26 Tex. Admin. Code § 749.1957
The provisions of this §749.1957 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7469; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 47, Number 16, April 22, 2022, TexReg 2286, eff. 4/25/2022