Bill Text: TX HB3552 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the foster care payment rate for certain foster parents and the reimbursement of certain expenses for the foster parent; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-24 - Left pending in committee [HB3552 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3552-Introduced.html
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| By: Swanson | H.B. No. 3552 | |
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| relating to the foster care payment rate for certain foster parents | ||
| and the reimbursement of certain expenses for the foster parent; | ||
| creating a criminal offense. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 264.101, Family Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (a-3) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-3) If the department places one or more children assigned | ||
| a basic or moderate service level with a foster parent, the | ||
| department shall pay the foster parent the cost of foster care in | ||
| accordance with the following schedule: | ||
| (1) 100 percent of the daily foster care reimbursement | ||
| rate for the first child placed with the foster parent; | ||
| (2) 80 percent of the daily foster care reimbursement | ||
| rate for the second child placed with the foster parent; | ||
| (3) 60 percent of the daily foster care reimbursement | ||
| rate for the third child placed with the foster parent; | ||
| (4) 40 percent of the daily foster care reimbursement | ||
| rate for the fourth child placed with the foster parent; | ||
| (5) 20 percent of the daily foster care reimbursement | ||
| rate for the fifth child placed with the foster parent; and | ||
| (6) the foster parent will not receive any additional | ||
| payment if the department places more than five children with the | ||
| foster parent. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 264, Family Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 264.1252 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 264.1252. REIMBURSEMENT FOR ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES; | ||
| CRIMINAL OFFENSE. (a) In this section, "enrichment activities" | ||
| includes athletic camps and competition, art and music classes and | ||
| camps, school-related extracurricular activities, faith-based | ||
| camps or mission trips, and the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl | ||
| Scouts of the United States of America, or similar organizations | ||
| and activities. The term does not include entertainment activities | ||
| that a child participates in solely with the child's foster parent. | ||
| (b) At the foster parent's discretion, the foster parent may | ||
| enroll a foster child in age-appropriate enrichment activities. | ||
| (c) The department shall reimburse a foster parent for any | ||
| monetary expenses relating to the participation of a child in | ||
| enrichment activities. The foster parent must provide the | ||
| department with receipts for any expenses under this subsection to | ||
| receive reimbursement. | ||
| (d) A person commits an offense if, with intent to defraud | ||
| or deceive the department, the person knowingly makes or causes to | ||
| be made a false statement or misrepresentation of a material fact | ||
| that allows a person to receive a reimbursement under Subsection | ||
| (c). An offense under this subsection is a Class C misdemeanor. | ||
| SECTION 3. As soon as possible after the effective date of | ||
| this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission shall increase the 24-hour residential child | ||
| care rates paid to a foster family for a child by 20 percent. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
