Bill Text: TX HB693 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 693 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to medical and psychological assessments and services for children in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-27 - Referred to Human Services [HB693 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB693-Introduced.html

	85R1617 MK-D

	By: Wu	H.B. No. 693



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to medical and psychological assessments and services for
	children in the managing conservatorship of the Department of
	Family and Protective Services.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 266, Family Code, is amended by adding
	Section 266.0031 to read as follows:
	Sec. 266.0031. INITIAL MEDICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL
	ASSESSMENT; SCHEDULING OF SERVICES. (a) The department shall
	conduct an initial medical and psychological assessment of a child
	not later than the seventh day after the date the child enters the
	managing conservatorship of the department, or not later than the
	third day after the date the child enters the managing
	conservatorship of the department if the child was removed from the
	child's home because of an immediate risk of abuse or neglect that
	could have resulted in the death of or serious harm to the child.
	(b) Following the initial assessments of a child under
	Subsection (a), the department may, without court approval,
	schedule for the child any preventive treatments, acute medical
	services, or therapeutic and rehabilitative care to meet the
	child's mental and physical needs. In scheduling treatments,
	services, or care under this subsection, the department shall
	adhere to the medical services delivery model developed under
	Section 266.003.
	SECTION 2. Section 266.0031, Family Code, as added by this
	Act, applies only to a child who enters the conservatorship of the
	Department of Family and Protective Services on or after the
	effective date of this Act. A child who enters the conservatorship
	of the Department of Family and Protective Services before the
	effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
	date the child entered foster care, and the former law is continued
	in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.