Bill Text: TX HB748 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 748 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to a waiver allowing the Department of Family and Protective Services to use certain federal funds to test innovation strategies in child welfare programs.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB748 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB748-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 748




	AN ACT
	relating to a waiver allowing the Department of Family and
	Protective Services to use certain federal funds to test innovation
	strategies in child welfare programs.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 40, Human Resources Code,
	is amended by adding Section 40.074 to read as follows:
	Sec. 40.074. WAIVER TO USE FUNDS TO TEST INNOVATIONS TO
	CHILD WELFARE PROGRAMS. (a) The department shall apply for and
	actively pursue a waiver, as authorized by the Child and Family
	Services Improvement and Innovation Act (Pub. L. No. 112-34), to
	allow the department to use federal funds available under Title
	IV-E, Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section 670 et seq.), to
	conduct demonstration projects to accomplish one or more of the
	following goals:
	(1) providing more permanency for children by reducing
	time in foster care and promoting successful transitions to
	adulthood for former foster youth;
	(2) increasing positive outcomes for infants,
	children, and families in their homes and communities and
	increasing the safety and well-being of infants, children, and
	youth; and
	(3) preventing child abuse and neglect and the reentry
	of children into foster care.
	(b) This section expires December 31, 2015.
	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, 2013.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 748 was passed by the House on April
	11, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 7, 2 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 748 was passed by the Senate on May
	15, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor