Bill Text: TX HB704 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the required submission by certain general residential operations of information requested by courts.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-20 - Referred to Human Services [HB704 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB704-Introduced.html
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By: Wu | H.B. No. 704 |
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relating to the required submission by certain general residential | ||
operations of information requested by courts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 42.066 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 42.066. REQUIRED SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION REQUESTED | ||
BY COURT. A general residential operation that provides mental | ||
health treatment or services to a child in the managing | ||
conservatorship of the department shall timely submit to the court | ||
in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship under Subtitle E, | ||
Title 5, Family Code, all information requested by that court. | ||
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, 2017. |