Bill Text: TX SB1806 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring the use of multidisciplinary teams appointed by children's advocacy centers in certain child abuse investigations.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB1806 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1806-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 1806 |
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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. | ||
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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. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |