Bill Text: TX HB679 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a study on homeless youth.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB679 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB679-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 679 |
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relating to a study on homeless youth. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 2306, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subchapter OO to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER OO. HOMELESS YOUTH | ||
Sec. 2306.1101. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "homeless | ||
youth" means a person who is younger than 19 years of age, including | ||
a migratory child, as defined by Section 1309, Elementary and | ||
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. Section 6399), who: | ||
(1) lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime | ||
residence, including a person who is: | ||
(A) living in an emergency shelter; | ||
(B) abandoned in a hospital; or | ||
(C | ||
) awaiting foster care placement; | ||
(2) has a primary nighttime residence that is a public | ||
or private place not designed or ordinarily used as a regular | ||
sleeping accommodation for humans; or | ||
(3) is living in a car, park, other public space, | ||
abandoned building, substandard housing, bus or train station, or | ||
similar setting. | ||
Sec. 2306.1102. STUDY ON HOMELESS YOUTH. (a) The | ||
department, in conjunction with other members of the Texas | ||
Interagency Council for the Homeless established under Subchapter | ||
KK, shall conduct a study on homeless youth. | ||
(b) In conducting the study, the department shall: | ||
(1) collect data on the number of homeless youth in | ||
this state; | ||
(2) examine the needs of homeless youth and the degree | ||
to which current programs are meeting those needs; | ||
(3) identify any sources of funding that might be | ||
available to provide services to homeless youth; and | ||
(4) develop a strategic plan establishing steps to be | ||
taken and timelines for reducing youth homelessness in this state. | ||
(c) The department shall submit a report on the study to the | ||
legislature not later than December 1, 2016. The report must | ||
include a summary of the information resulting from the study and | ||
recommendations for changes in law necessary to provide services to | ||
or otherwise assist homeless youth. | ||
(d) This section expires September 1, 2017. | ||
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, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 679 was passed by the House on April | ||
16, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 92, Nays 50, 3 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 679 on May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 110, Nays 33, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 679 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 24, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 20, Nays | ||
10. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |