Bill Text: TX HB1227 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the use of an Internet application to allow access by court-appointed volunteer advocates to child protective services case information.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB1227 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1227-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the use of an Internet application to allow access by court-appointed volunteer advocates to child protective services case information.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB1227 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1227-Introduced.html
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By: Dukes | H.B. No. 1227 |
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relating to the use of an Internet application to allow access by | ||
court-appointed volunteer advocates to child protective services | ||
case information. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 264, Family Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 264.614 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 264.614. INTERNET APPLICATION FOR CASE TRACKING AND | ||
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. (a) Subject to the availability of | ||
money as described by Subsection (c), the department shall develop | ||
an Internet application that allows a court-appointed volunteer | ||
advocate representing a child in the managing conservatorship of | ||
the department to access the child's case file through the | ||
department's automated case tracking and information management | ||
system and to add the volunteer advocate's findings and reports to | ||
the child's case file. | ||
(b) The court-appointed volunteer advocate shall maintain | ||
the confidentiality required by this chapter and department rule | ||
for the information accessed by the advocate through the system | ||
described by Subsection (a). | ||
(c) The department may not use money other than money | ||
received as a gift, grant, or donation to pay for the costs of | ||
developing and maintaining the Internet application required by | ||
Subsection (a). The department may solicit and accept gifts, | ||
grants, and donations of any kind and from any source for purposes | ||
of this section. | ||
(d) The executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement this | ||
section. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective | ||
date of this Act, the Department of Family and Protective Services | ||
shall solicit money and develop the Internet application as | ||
required by Section 264.614, Family Code, as added by this Act. | ||
(b) As soon as practicable after the effective date of this | ||
Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services | ||
Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement Section | ||
264.614, Family Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |