Bill Text: TX HB3562 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing the foster parent of a foster child to take certain actions to protect the child from violence and kidnapping.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-30 - Referred to Human Services [HB3562 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3562-Introduced.html
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By: Swanson | H.B. No. 3562 |
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relating to authorizing the foster parent of a foster child to take | ||
certain actions to protect the child from violence and kidnapping. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 262, Family Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 262.015 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 262.015. USE OF ASSUMED NAME FOR CHILD. (a) At a | ||
hearing held under this chapter or Chapter 263, if the court makes a | ||
finding that there is reasonable cause to believe that a child is at | ||
risk for violence or kidnapping perpetrated by the child's parent | ||
or a person associated with the child's parent, the court may render | ||
an order authorizing the foster parent of the child to: | ||
(1) enroll the child in school and age-appropriate | ||
normalcy activities, as that term is defined by Section 264.001, | ||
under an assumed name; or | ||
(2) move the child to a location outside of the county | ||
in which the foster parent resides. | ||
(b) If the court authorizes a foster parent of a child to | ||
enroll the child in school or age-appropriate normalcy activities | ||
under an assumed name, the foster parent shall choose an assumed | ||
name for the child and shall notify the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services and the court of the assumed name. The court | ||
and the department may not disclose the assumed name chosen for the | ||
child to any other party to the suit involving the child, including | ||
to the child's parent. | ||
(c) A school in which a child is enrolled under an assumed | ||
name may not disclose the child's enrollment in the school to any | ||
person, even if the person presents the school with alternative | ||
identification information for the child, including the child's | ||
social security number. This subsection does not apply to the | ||
disclosure of enrollment information to a Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services employee who is assigned to the child's case. | ||
(d) The Department of Family and Protective Services may | ||
adopt rules to implement this section and may collaborate with the | ||
Texas Education Agency to adopt rules to implement Subsection (c). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |