Bill Text: TX HB607 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a Department of Family and Protective Services plan to address the substitute care capacity needs in certain child protective services regions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-01 - Referred to Human Services [HB607 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB607-Introduced.html
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By: Howard | H.B. No. 607 |
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relating to a Department of Family and Protective Services plan to | ||
address the substitute care capacity needs in certain child | ||
protective services regions. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 264.1261(b), Family Code, as added by | ||
Chapter 319 (S.B. 11), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2017, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) Appropriate department management personnel from a | ||
child protective services region in which community-based care has | ||
not been implemented, in collaboration with foster care providers, | ||
faith-based entities, and child advocates in that region, shall use | ||
data collected by the department on foster care capacity needs and | ||
availability of each type of foster care and kinship placement in | ||
the region to create a plan to address the substitute care capacity | ||
needs in the region. The plan must identify: | ||
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strategies for addressing those capacity needs; and | ||
(2) the capacity and geographic distribution of foster | ||
placements tailored to serve the distinct needs of pregnant and | ||
parenting youth in the conservatorship of the department. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 264.1261(a) and (b), Family Code, as | ||
added by Chapter 822 (H.B. 1549), Acts of the 85th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2017, are repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |