Bill Text: TX SB769 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 769 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a pilot program to provide specialized training to foster parents of certain children.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB769 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB769-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 769




	AN ACT
	relating to the establishment of a pilot program to provide
	specialized training to foster parents of certain children.
	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. FOSTER PARENT PILOT PROGRAM. (a) The
	department shall establish a pilot program to provide specialized
	training to foster parents of children who have been traumatized or
	have serious mental health needs if the department or another state
	agency is able to provide the training using existing resources or a
	local governmental entity or charitable organization is able to
	provide the training at no cost to the state.
	(b) The department shall:
	(1) establish the pilot program in a county with a
	population of at least 1.5 million that is within 200 miles of an
	international border;
	(2) coordinate the specialized training as part of
	community-based services and support provided under a Wraparound
	individualized planning process for foster children as prescribed
	by the Texas Integrated Funding Initiative Consortium; and
	(3) evaluate the pilot program not later than the
	second anniversary of the date the program is established.
	(c) The department shall prepare a report containing the
	evaluation required under Subsection (b)(3) and the department's
	recommendations on the feasibility and continuation of the pilot
	program. The department shall submit electronically a copy of the
	report to the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the
	house of representatives not later than December 1, 2016.
	(d) This section expires September 1, 2017.
	SECTION 2. Not later than May 1, 2014, the Department of
	Family and Protective Services shall establish the pilot program
	required under Section 264.124, Family Code, as added by this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 769 passed the Senate on
	April 4, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 769 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