Bill Text: TX HB2124 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the procedures for identifying and notifying relevant federal agencies about certain child abuse and neglect investigations.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-01 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2124 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2124-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2124 | ||
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| relating to the procedures for identifying and notifying relevant | ||
| federal agencies about certain child abuse and neglect | ||
| investigations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 261.301, Family Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: | ||
| (j) In an investigation of a report of abuse or neglect | ||
| allegedly committed by a person responsible for a child's care, | ||
| custody, or welfare, the department shall determine whether the | ||
| person is an active duty member of the United States armed forces or | ||
| the spouse of a member on active duty. If the department determines | ||
| the person is an active duty member of the United States armed | ||
| forces or the spouse of a member on active duty, the department | ||
| shall notify the United States Department of Defense Family | ||
| Advocacy Program at the closest active duty military installation | ||
| of the investigation. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act to Section | ||
| 261.301, Family Code, apply only to a report of abuse or neglect | ||
| made on or after the effective date of this Act. A report made | ||
| before that date is governed by the law in effect on the date the | ||
| report was made, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2124 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 13, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 4, 3 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2124 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
