Bill Text: TX HB1478 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to emergency placements of children by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-24 - Left pending in committee [HB1478 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1478-Introduced.html
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By: White | H.B. No. 1478 |
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relating to emergency placements of children by the Department of | ||
Family and Protective Services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 42.0533 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 42.0533. EMERGENCY PLACEMENT. (a) In this section, | ||
"emergency placement" means the temporary placement of a child in a | ||
foster home, foster group home, agency foster home, or agency | ||
foster group home for less than 72 hours. | ||
(b) The department and each child-placing agency with whom | ||
children in the managing conservatorship of the department are | ||
placed shall identify and compile a list of all licensed foster | ||
homes and foster group homes or verified agency foster homes and | ||
agency foster group homes that are able to accept the emergency | ||
placement of a child when a safe and suitable long-term placement is | ||
not available. | ||
(c) The department shall collaborate with child-placing | ||
agencies to: | ||
(1) develop procedures for the emergency placement of | ||
children; and | ||
(2) increase the number of foster homes, foster group | ||
homes, agency foster homes, and agency foster group homes that are | ||
able to accept the emergency placement of children. | ||
(d) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules governing | ||
the reimbursement of a foster home, a foster group home, an agency | ||
foster home, or an agency foster group home that accepts the | ||
emergency placement of a child. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |