Bill Text: TX HB1187 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of a person to serve as a relative or other designated caregiver for a child.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-16 - Left pending in committee [HB1187 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB1187-Introduced.html
  87R5318 MM-D
 
  By: Dutton H.B. No. 1187
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the eligibility of a person to serve as a relative or
  other designated caregiver for a child.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 264.754(a), (b), and (c), Family Code,
  are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  [In this section, "low-risk criminal offense" means a
  nonviolent criminal offense, including a fraud-based offense, the
  department determines has a low risk of impacting:
               [(1)  a child's safety or well-being; or
               [(2)  the stability of a child's placement with a
  relative or other designated caregiver.
         [(b)]  Before placing a child with a proposed relative or
  other designated caregiver, the department must conduct an
  assessment to determine whether the proposed placement is in the
  child's best interest.
         (b)  The [(c)  If the] department may not disqualify
  [disqualifies] a person from serving as a relative or other
  designated caregiver for a child on the basis that the person has
  been convicted of a [low-risk] criminal offense, other than an
  offense that requires the person to register as a sex offender under
  Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure, if the department
  determines that placing the child with the person is in the child's
  best interest [the person may appeal the disqualification in
  accordance with the procedure developed under Subsection (d)].
         SECTION 2.  Sections 264.754(d) and (e), Family Code, are
  repealed.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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