Bill Text: TX HB700 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the Preparation for Adult Living Program and other services for foster children transitioning to independent living.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB700 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB700-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the Preparation for Adult Living Program and other services for foster children transitioning to independent living.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB700 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB700-Comm_Sub.html
By: Johnson of Harris, Lopez, Frank | H.B. No. 700 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2021; | ||
May 11, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & | ||
Human Services; May 21, 2021, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 21, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the eligibility of foster children to receive college | ||
credit for completing the Preparation for Adult Living Program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 264.121(a-6), Family Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a-6) The department, in coordination with the Texas Higher | ||
Education Coordinating Board [ |
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work group to develop a plan to ensure that foster youth who | ||
complete [ |
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Preparation for Adult Living Program are eligible to receive | ||
college credit for completing the program. The work group must | ||
include representatives from urban and rural institutions of higher | ||
education, as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code. In | ||
developing its evidence-based recommendations, the work group | ||
shall consider the feasibility of implementing each | ||
recommendation, a foster youth's access to the Preparation for | ||
Adult Living Program, and the average length of time a foster youth | ||
will remain in a placement [ |
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report the plan to the legislature not later than November | ||
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2023. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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