Bill Text: TX HB1481 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to contracts to provide appropriate residential housing to students in extended foster care who enroll at public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-05 - Referred to Higher Education [HB1481 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1481-Introduced.html
| 87R4882 KEL-D | ||
| By: J. Johnson of Harris | H.B. No. 1481 | |
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| relating to contracts to provide appropriate residential housing to | ||
| students in extended foster care who enroll at public institutions | ||
| of higher education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 263, Family Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 263.609 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 263.609. CONTRACTS WITH PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER | ||
| EDUCATION TO PROVIDE RESIDENTIAL HOUSING. (a) In this section, | ||
| "institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 61.003, Education Code. | ||
| (b) The department and each institution of higher education | ||
| that provides residential housing to students enrolled at the | ||
| institution shall enter into a contract under which, for students | ||
| of the institution residing in that residential housing who are in | ||
| extended foster care, the institution agrees to serve as a | ||
| child-care institution, as defined by 42 U.S.C. Section 672(c), for | ||
| the purpose of providing housing in which those students are able to | ||
| live independently in a supervised setting in accordance with rules | ||
| adopted by the department pursuant to the Fostering Connections to | ||
| Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (Pub. L. No. 110-351). | ||
| SECTION 2. The Department of Family and Protective Services | ||
| shall enter into a contract with each public institution of higher | ||
| education subject to Section 263.609, Family Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, as soon as practicable after the effective date of this Act, | ||
| but not later than the 2022-2023 academic year. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2021. | ||
