A. A behavioral health residential facility may provide respite care to a child for increments of fewer than five consecutive days and not more than twelve days in a ninety-day period or an outpatient clinic may provide respite care to a child for up to ten continuous hours per day between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. without a medical history and physical examination. For those children receiving only respite services, the behavioral health residential facility or the outpatient clinic is exempt from all of the following licensure requirements in relation to the child’s respite stay:

1. Providing counseling services.

2. Providing a discharge order and summary, except that a parent, guardian or custodian must be provided documentation of any incidence of illness, physical injury, use of emergency safety response or unacceptable behavior that occurs during the child’s respite stay.

3. Providing medication information to a child for whom medication assistance is required.

4. Requirements for a review of the child’s medication regime by a medical practitioner.

5. Preparing and posting a food menu more than twenty-four hours in advance of food service.

6. Tuberculosis screening of the child.

B. The respite care provider shall be given a list of the child’s medications and allergies and emergency contact information on the child’s arrival.