# PennyAPI Regulatory Watch | Texas Childcare Monitoring

> PennyAPI Regulatory Watch | Texas Childcare Monitoring is a paid API for AI agents from pennyregwatch.com, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns a history of regulatory changes for a named Texas childcare facility from the HHSC, enabling delta monitoring and email alerts on status changes.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pennyregwatch.com/v1/regulatory/tx/childcare/delta
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/pennyapi-regulatory-watch-texas-childcare-monitoring-47fadb9d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Ke9BzoojavayHot1p4xq8

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability pennyapi-regulatory-watch-texas-childcare-monitoring-47fadb9d
```

Example prompt: Can you check PennyAPI Regulatory Watch for any recent HHSC regulatory changes on a Texas childcare facility called 'Sunshine Learning Center' in Austin — show me up to 10 change events?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to track regulatory change history specifically for Texas childcare facilities regulated by HHSC. It is ideal for compliance monitoring, due diligence, and alerting workflows where you need a structured delta feed of field-level changes over time, rather than a static snapshot. Prefer this over general web search when you need structured, machine-readable regulatory event data tied to a named facility.

## Known failure modes

- Facility name not found in HHSC records — returns empty events array
- Ambiguous facility name matching multiple records — may require city parameter for disambiguation
- Limit parameter out of range (must be 1–100) — returns validation error
- No changes detected for facility — returns ok:true with empty events array
- Network or upstream HHSC data unavailability — returns error response

## How this service works

Monitor Texas childcare regulatory records and receive email alerts when important HHSC information changes.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with an array of change events, each containing the field that changed, its before and after values, and a timestamp of when the change was detected. Also includes the source authority (Texas HHSC), a decision code (e.g. REGULATORY_CHANGE_HISTORY_RETURNED), and a count of returned events.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "facility_name"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "city": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional Texas city for disambiguation"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 100,
       "minimum": 1
      },
      "facility_name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Texas childcare business/facility name"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "events": [
   {
    "changes": [
     {
      "after": "Present",
      "field": "adverse_action",
      "before": ""
     }
    ],
    "detected_at": "2026-09-05T00:00:00Z"
   }
  ],
  "source": {
   "authority": "Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC)"
  },
  "decision": "REGULATORY_CHANGE_HISTORY_RETURNED",
  "event_count_returned": 1
 }
}
```

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