Bill Text: TX HB2490 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Relating to the system for maintaining records relating to children in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-10 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB2490 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2490-Engrossed.html

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86R24357 MCK-F
By: Wu, Frank, Hinojosa, Goodwin, Bucy H.B. No. 2490

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the system for maintaining records relating to children
in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective
Services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 40, Human Resources Code,
is amended by adding Section 40.043 to read as follows:
Sec. 40.043. CASE TRACKING AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM. The department shall ensure that the department's case
tracking and information management system:
(1) locks information related to any stage of service
entered in a case narrative in the system by appropriate department
staff, representatives, or agents after approval by department
management;
(2) after information is locked in the case narrative
in the system as provided by Subdivision (1):
(A) prevents modification of the information by
any department staff, representative, or agent unless authorized by
order of a court; and
(B) allows appropriate department staff,
representatives, and agents to make supplemental entries to the
case narrative to update or provide additional information relevant
to the case; and
(3) for any substantive change to information in the
system, other than a change to the case narrative, requires the
identity of the person making the change and the date the change is
made to be included in the system.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.