Bill Text: TX SB889 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to collecting and reporting certain information by the Department of Family and Protective Services relating to certain alcohol and controlled substance use.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-28 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB889 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB889-Introduced.html
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| By: Perry | S.B. No. 889 | |
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| relating to collecting and reporting certain information by the | ||
| Department of Family and Protective Services relating to certain | ||
| alcohol and controlled substance use. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 162.007, Family Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (g) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (a) The health history of the child must include information | ||
| about: | ||
| (1) the child's health status at the time of placement; | ||
| (2) the child's birth, neonatal, and other medical, | ||
| psychological, psychiatric, and dental history information, | ||
| including to the extent known by the Department of Family and | ||
| Protective Services based on the information collected under | ||
| Section 264.019: | ||
| (A) whether the child's birth mother consumed | ||
| alcohol during pregnancy; and | ||
| (B) whether the child has been diagnosed with | ||
| fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; | ||
| (3) a record of immunizations for the child; and | ||
| (4) the available results of medical, psychological, | ||
| psychiatric, and dental examinations of the child. | ||
| (g) In this section, "fetal alcohol spectrum disorder" | ||
| means any of a group of conditions that can occur in a person whose | ||
| mother consumed alcohol during pregnancy. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 264, Family Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 264.019 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 264.019. COLLECTION AND REPORTING OF ALCOHOL AND | ||
| CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE STATISTICS. (a) The department shall collect | ||
| the following information and update the department's case tracking | ||
| and information management system to allow caseworkers to record: | ||
| (1) the number of children reported to the department | ||
| who at birth tested positive for the presence of alcohol or a | ||
| controlled substance; | ||
| (2) the controlled substances for which the children | ||
| described by Subdivision (1) tested positive; | ||
| (3) the number of children described by Subdivision | ||
| (1) who were removed from their homes and have been diagnosed as | ||
| having a disability or chronic medical condition resulting from the | ||
| presence of alcohol or controlled substances; and | ||
| (4) the number of parents who test positive for the | ||
| presence of a controlled substance during a department | ||
| investigation of a report of abuse or neglect of the parent's child. | ||
| (b) Not later than November 1 of each year, the department | ||
| shall: | ||
| (1) prepare for the preceding year a report containing | ||
| the information collected under Subsection (a); | ||
| (2) post a copy of the report prepared under | ||
| Subdivision (1) on the department's Internet website; and | ||
| (3) electronically submit to the legislature a copy of | ||
| the report. | ||
| (c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary | ||
| to implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 3. The Department of Family and Protective Services | ||
| shall submit the first report required by Section 264.019(b), | ||
| Family Code, as added by this Act, not later than November 1, 2018. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 264.019, Family Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies to information collected by the Department of Family | ||
| and Protective Services on and after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
