Bill Text: TX HB4228 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a memorandum of understanding between certain state agencies related to training of employees and contractors who provide certain services to children and families.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-03 - Referred to Human Services [HB4228 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB4228-Introduced.html
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By: White | H.B. No. 4228 |
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relating to a memorandum of understanding between certain state | ||
agencies related to training of employees and contractors who | ||
provide certain services to children and families. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 533.0415(a), (d), and (e), Health and | ||
Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The executive commissioner, the Texas Juvenile Justice | ||
Department, and the Texas Education Agency by rule shall adopt a | ||
joint memorandum of understanding to develop interagency training | ||
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department, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, the Department | ||
of Family and Protective Services, and the Texas Education Agency | ||
who are involved in the functions of assessment, case planning, | ||
case management, and in-home or direct delivery of services to | ||
children, youth, and their families under this title. The | ||
memorandum must: | ||
(1) outline the responsibility of each agency in | ||
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interagency training on effective [ |
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individualized and provided in the least restrictive environment | ||
appropriate for children and [ |
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(2) identify the available training programs | ||
administered by the state agencies identified by this subsection | ||
and the eligibility requirements for those programs; and | ||
(3) provide for the establishment of an interagency | ||
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(A) common training needs for individuals | ||
employed or contracted by the state agencies identified by this | ||
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(B) existing training and technical assistance | ||
resources, including web-based resources, available across the | ||
state agencies identified by this subsection that can be used to the | ||
greatest extent possible for the implementation of the plan | ||
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(d) The appropriate division of the commission designated | ||
by the commission shall act as the lead state agency in coordinating | ||
the development and implementation of the memorandum. | ||
(e) The executive commissioner and the state agencies | ||
identified by Subsection (a) shall review and by rule revise the | ||
memorandum not later than August of each odd-numbered year. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 533.0415(b) and (c), Health and Safety | ||
Code, are repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |