Bill Text: TX SB430 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to verification of the unavailability of community day care before the Department of Family and Protective Services provides day-care assistance or services.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB430 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB430-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 430 | ||
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| relating to verification of the unavailability of community day | ||
| care before the Department of Family and Protective Services | ||
| provides day-care assistance or services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 264, Family Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 264.124 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 264.124. DAY CARE FOR FOSTER CHILD. (a) In this | ||
| section, "day care" means the assessment, care, training, | ||
| education, custody, treatment, or supervision of a foster child by | ||
| a person other than the child's foster parent for less than 24 hours | ||
| a day, but at least two hours a day, three or more days a week. | ||
| (b) The department, in accordance with executive | ||
| commissioner rule, shall implement a process to verify that each | ||
| foster parent who is seeking monetary assistance from the | ||
| department for day care for a foster child has attempted to find | ||
| appropriate day-care services for the foster child through | ||
| community services, including Head Start programs, prekindergarten | ||
| classes, and early education programs offered in public schools. | ||
| The department shall specify the documentation the foster parent | ||
| must provide to the department to demonstrate compliance with the | ||
| requirements established under this subsection. | ||
| (c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), the department may | ||
| not provide monetary assistance to a foster parent for day care for | ||
| a foster child unless the department receives the verification | ||
| required under Subsection (b). | ||
| (d) The department may provide monetary assistance to a | ||
| foster parent for a foster child without the verification required | ||
| under Subsection (b) if the department determines the verification | ||
| would prevent an emergency placement that is in the child's best | ||
| interest. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 264.755, Family Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) The department, in accordance with executive | ||
| commissioner rule, shall implement a process to verify that each | ||
| relative and designated caregiver who is seeking monetary | ||
| assistance or additional support services from the department for | ||
| day care as defined by Section 264.124 for a child under this | ||
| section has attempted to find appropriate day-care services for the | ||
| child through community services, including Head Start programs, | ||
| prekindergarten classes, and early education programs offered in | ||
| public schools. The department shall specify the documentation the | ||
| relative or designated caregiver must provide to the department to | ||
| demonstrate compliance with the requirements established under | ||
| this subsection. The department may not provide monetary | ||
| assistance or additional support services to the relative or | ||
| designated caregiver for the day care unless the department | ||
| receives the required verification. | ||
| (e) The department may provide monetary assistance or | ||
| additional support services to a relative or designated caregiver | ||
| for day care without the verification required under Subsection (d) | ||
| if the department determines the verification would prevent an | ||
| emergency placement that is in the child's best interest. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 430 passed the Senate on | ||
| March 21, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 430 passed the House on | ||
| May 17, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 132, Nays 2, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
