Bill Text: TX HB3091 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to evaluating and improving the provision of prevention and early intervention services by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-27 - Referred to Human Services [HB3091 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3091-Introduced.html
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| By: Burkett | H.B. No. 3091 | |
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| relating to evaluating and improving the provision of prevention | ||
| and early intervention services by the Department of Family and | ||
| Protective Services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 265, Family Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Sections 265.007 and 265.008 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 265.007. IMPROVING PROVISION OF PREVENTION AND EARLY | ||
| INTERVENTION SERVICES. To improve the effectiveness and delivery | ||
| of prevention and early intervention services, the department | ||
| shall: | ||
| (1) use a geographic focus to ensure that prevention | ||
| and early intervention services are provided to families with the | ||
| greatest need; | ||
| (2) identify the geographic areas that have the | ||
| highest need for prevention and early intervention services using: | ||
| (A) verified external risk terrain modeling; or | ||
| (B) geographic risk assessments that use risk | ||
| indicators of child abuse or neglect and child abuse fatalities; | ||
| (3) identify geographic areas that have a high need | ||
| for prevention and early intervention services but do not have | ||
| prevention and early intervention services available in the area or | ||
| have only unevaluated prevention and early intervention services | ||
| available in the area; and | ||
| (4) develop strategies for community partners to: | ||
| (A) improve the early recognition of child abuse | ||
| or neglect; | ||
| (B) improve the reporting of child abuse and | ||
| neglect; and | ||
| (C) prevent child fatalities. | ||
| Sec. 265.008. EVALUATION OF PREVENTION AND EARLY | ||
| INTERVENTION SERVICES. (a) The department and the Texas Higher | ||
| Education Coordinating Board shall enter into agreements with | ||
| institutions of higher education to conduct efficacy reviews of any | ||
| prevention and early intervention services provided under this | ||
| chapter that have not previously been evaluated for effectiveness | ||
| in a research evaluation that meets the standards described by | ||
| Subsection (b). The efficacy review shall include, when possible, a | ||
| cost-benefit analysis of the program to the state. | ||
| (b) A prevention and early intervention services program is | ||
| considered to have been previously evaluated if it has been | ||
| evaluated by at least one rigorous randomized controlled research | ||
| trial across heterogeneous populations or communities, the results | ||
| of at least one of which have been published in a peer-reviewed | ||
| journal. | ||
| (c) The department is not required to enter into an | ||
| agreement to conduct a program efficacy evaluation under this | ||
| section unless: | ||
| (1) the department is specifically appropriated money | ||
| for the purposes of this section; or | ||
| (2) the agreement with the institution of higher | ||
| education is cost neutral. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
