Bill Text: TX HB932 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the collection of information concerning the number of juvenile offenders committed to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department who have been in foster care.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB932 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB932-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 932 | ||
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| relating to the collection of information concerning the number of | ||
| juvenile offenders committed to the Texas Juvenile Justice | ||
| Department who have been in foster care. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 243, Human Resources Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 243.008 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 243.008. INFORMATION CONCERNING FOSTER CARE HISTORY. | ||
| (a) In this section, "foster care" means the placement of a child | ||
| in the conservatorship of a state agency responsible for providing | ||
| child protective services. | ||
| (b) The department, during the admission process, shall | ||
| determine whether a child committed to the department has at any | ||
| time been in foster care. The department shall record the following | ||
| on the child's intake form: | ||
| (1) whether the child is currently in foster care; and | ||
| (2) if applicable, the number of times the child has | ||
| previously been placed in foster care. | ||
| (c) The Department of Family and Protective Services shall, | ||
| not later than the 14th day after receiving a request from a local | ||
| juvenile probation department, provide the following information | ||
| regarding a child in the custody of the probation department: | ||
| (1) whether the child is currently or has been in | ||
| foster care; and | ||
| (2) if applicable, the number of times the child has | ||
| previously been placed in foster care. | ||
| (d) The department, the Department of Family and Protective | ||
| Services, and local juvenile probation departments shall | ||
| collaborate to create a method or methods by which probation | ||
| departments statewide may access information from the Department of | ||
| Family and Protective Services relating to a child's placement in | ||
| foster care. Not later than March 1, 2018, the department shall | ||
| submit a report containing the method or methods created under this | ||
| subsection to each member of the legislature and each standing | ||
| committee of the legislature having primary jurisdiction over the | ||
| department. This subsection expires April 1, 2018. | ||
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| ) Not later than January 31 of each even-numbered year, | ||
| the department shall submit a report to the governor, the | ||
| lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, | ||
| and each standing committee having primary jurisdiction over the | ||
| department. The report must summarize statistical information | ||
| concerning the total number and percentage of children in the | ||
| custody of the department during the preceding two years who have at | ||
| any time been in foster care. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 932 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 20, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 2, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 932 on May 20, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 0, 2 | ||
| present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 932 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 17, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
