Bill Text: TX HB3035 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the evaluation of family-based safety services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-19 - Referred to Human Services [HB3035 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3035-Introduced.html
| 87R9309 MLH-D | ||
| By: Campos | H.B. No. 3035 | |
|
|
||
|
|
||
| relating to the evaluation of family-based safety services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 40, Human Resources Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 40.05811 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 40.05811. EVALUATION OF FAMILY-BASED SAFETY SERVICES. | ||
| (a) The department shall evaluate family-based safety services | ||
| programs to ensure that the services provided through the programs | ||
| are designed to allow children to safely remain in their homes or to | ||
| make it possible for children to return to their homes. The | ||
| evaluation must examine the process by which the department | ||
| develops intervention plans for families to ensure that | ||
| intervention plans are designed to deliver the services that will | ||
| provide children with a safe environment and reduce the risk of | ||
| future abuse or neglect. | ||
| (b) The commission shall make changes to family-based | ||
| safety services programs based on the evaluation under Subsection | ||
| (a). | ||
| (c) The department shall evaluate family-based safety | ||
| services programs under this section every five years. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
