Bill Text: TX SB66 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to studying the causes of and making recommendations for reducing child fatalities, including fatalities from the abuse and neglect of children.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB66 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB66-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to studying the causes of and making recommendations for reducing child fatalities, including fatalities from the abuse and neglect of children.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB66 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB66-Comm_Sub.html
By: Nelson | S.B. No. 66 | |
(In the Senate - Filed November 12, 2012; January 28, 2013, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human | ||
Services; February 18, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
February 18, 2013, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 66 | By: Nelson |
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relating to the child fatality review team committee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 264.502, Family | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) The members of the committee who serve under Subsections | ||
(a)(1) through (3) shall select the following additional committee | ||
members: | ||
(1) a criminal prosecutor involved in prosecuting | ||
crimes against children; | ||
(2) a sheriff; | ||
(3) a justice of the peace; | ||
(4) a medical examiner; | ||
(5) a police chief; | ||
(6) a pediatrician experienced in diagnosing and | ||
treating child abuse and neglect; | ||
(7) a child educator; | ||
(8) a child mental health provider; | ||
(9) a public health professional; | ||
(10) a child protective services specialist; | ||
(11) a sudden infant death syndrome family service | ||
provider; | ||
(12) a neonatologist; | ||
(13) a child advocate; | ||
(14) a chief juvenile probation officer; | ||
(15) a child abuse prevention specialist; | ||
(16) a representative of the Department of Public | ||
Safety; [ |
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(17) a representative of the Texas Department of | ||
Transportation; | ||
(18) an emergency medical services provider; and | ||
(19) a provider of services to, or an advocate for, | ||
victims of family violence. | ||
(c) Members of the committee selected under Subsection (b) | ||
serve three-year terms with the terms of [ |
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members, as appropriate, expiring February 1 each year. | ||
SECTION 2. Subsection (f), Section 264.503, Family Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(f) [ |
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even-numbered year, the committee shall publish a report that | ||
contains aggregate child fatality data collected by local child | ||
fatality review teams, recommendations to prevent child fatalities | ||
and injuries, and recommendations to the department on child | ||
protective services operations based on input from the child safety | ||
review subcommittee. The committee shall [ |
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copy of the report [ |
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governor, speaker of the house of representatives, Department of | ||
State Health Services, and department[ |
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each even-numbered year, the department shall submit a written | ||
response to [ |
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State Health Services describing which of the committee's | ||
recommendations regarding the operation of the child protective | ||
services system the department will implement and the methods of | ||
implementation. | ||
SECTION 3. The members of the child fatality review team | ||
committee under Subsection (a), Section 264.502, Family Code, | ||
responsible for selecting the additional members of the committee | ||
required by Subsection (b), Section 264.502, Family Code, as | ||
amended by this Act, shall make those appointments not later than | ||
November 1, 2013. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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