Bill Text: TX HB1309 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the notification of certain persons concerning certain events related to a child in foster care or in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1309 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1309-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the notification of certain persons concerning certain events related to a child in foster care or in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1309 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1309-Introduced.html
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By: Turner of Harris | H.B. No. 1309 |
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relating to the notification of certain legislators of the death of | ||
a child in foster care. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 264, Family Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 264.0121 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 264.0121. NOTICE TO LEGISLATORS OF FOSTER CHILD'S | ||
DEATH. Not later than the fifth day after the date the department | ||
is notified of the death of a child for whom the department has been | ||
appointed managing conservator, the department shall provide the | ||
information described by Section 261.203(a) for the child to the | ||
state senators and state representatives who represent: | ||
(1) the county in which the child's placement at the | ||
time of the child's death was located; and | ||
(2) the county in which a suit affecting the | ||
parent-child relationship involving the child is pending. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |