Bill Text: TX HB2983 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to medical examinations for certain children entering the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-17 - Received from the House [HB2983 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2983-Engrossed.html
By: Hull, Frank, Gates | H.B. No. 2983 |
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relating to medical examinations for certain children entering the | ||
conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective | ||
Services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 264.1076, Family Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (b) and (i) and adding Subsection (b-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) The department shall ensure that each child described by | ||
Subsection (a) receives an initial medical examination from a | ||
physician or other health care provider authorized under state law | ||
to conduct medical examinations not later than the end of the third | ||
business day after the date the child is removed from the child's | ||
home, if the child: | ||
(1) is removed as the result of sexual abuse, physical | ||
abuse, or an obvious physical injury to the child; or | ||
(2) has a known or suspected chronic medical | ||
condition, [ |
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illness. | ||
(b-1) Only children described by Subsections (b)(1) and (2) | ||
may receive an initial medical examination under Subsection (b). | ||
(i) Not later than December 31, 2022 [ |
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shall submit a report to the standing committees of the house of | ||
representatives and the senate with primary jurisdiction over child | ||
protective services and foster care evaluating the statewide | ||
implementation of the medical examination required by this section. | ||
The report must include for each region of the state: | ||
(1) the level of compliance with the requirements of | ||
this section; and | ||
(2) the number of medical examinations conducted under | ||
Subsection (b) and the reason for each medical examination [ |
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SECTION 2. Section 264.1076(b-1), Family Code, as added by | ||
this Act, applies only to a child who enters the conservatorship of | ||
the Department of Family and Protective Services on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. A child who enters the conservatorship | ||
of the Department of Family and Protective Services before the | ||
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the | ||
date the child entered the conservatorship of the department, and | ||
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |