Bill Text: TX HB4233 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to training regarding runaway prevention for certain individuals who provide care for children in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4233 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4233-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to training regarding runaway prevention for certain individuals who provide care for children in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4233 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4233-Comm_Sub.html
By: Zwiener, Frank, Garcia | H.B. No. 4233 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2023; | ||
May 9, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & | ||
Human Services; May 21, 2023, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1; May 21, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to training regarding runaway prevention for certain | ||
individuals who provide care for children in the conservatorship of | ||
the Department of Family and Protective Services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 264.015, Family Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows: | ||
(d) Each foster parent, prospective adoptive parent, and | ||
relative or other designated caregiver who provide care for | ||
children and youth in the conservatorship of the department who are | ||
10 years of age or older shall complete a training program on: | ||
(1) runaway prevention measures; and | ||
(2) proper procedures in the event a child or youth | ||
runs away from the provider. | ||
(e) The training under Subsection (d) may be: | ||
(1) offered to providers who provide care for children | ||
in the conservatorship of the department who are younger than 10 | ||
years of age who have a history of running away; | ||
(2) included as part of existing licensing training | ||
provided by the department or contracted residential child-care | ||
providers; and | ||
(3) offered in lieu of required training that is not | ||
relevant based on the age of the children for whom the person will | ||
be providing care. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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