Bill Text: TX SB1806 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 1806 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to requiring the use of multidisciplinary teams appointed by children's advocacy centers in certain child abuse investigations.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB1806 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB1806-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 1806




	AN ACT
	relating to requiring the use of multidisciplinary teams appointed
	by children's advocacy centers in certain child abuse
	investigations.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 264, Family Code, is
	amended by adding Section 264.4061 to read as follows:
	Sec. 264.4061. MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM RESPONSE REQUIRED.
	(a) The department shall refer a case to a center and the center
	shall initiate a response by a center's multidisciplinary team
	appointed under Section 264.406 when conducting an investigation
	of:
	(1) a report of abuse that is made by a professional as
	defined by Section 261.101 and that:
	(A) alleges sexual abuse of a child; or
	(B) is a type of case handled by the center in
	accordance with the working protocol adopted for the center under
	Section 264.411(a)(9); or
	(2) a child fatality in which there are surviving
	children in the deceased child's household or under the supervision
	of the caregiver involved in the child fatality.
	(b) Any interview of a child conducted as part of the
	investigation under Subsection (a) must be a forensic interview
	conducted in accordance with the center's working protocol unless a
	forensic interview is not appropriate based on the child's age and
	development or the center's working protocol.
	(c) Subsection (a) applies only to an investigation of abuse
	in a county served by a center that has executed an interagency
	memorandum of understanding under Section 264.403. If a county is
	not served by a center that has executed an interagency memorandum
	of understanding, the department may directly refer a case to a
	center in an adjacent county to initiate a response by that center's
	multidisciplinary team, if appropriate.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1806 passed the Senate on
	April 26, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1806 passed the House on
	May 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, two
	present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor