| TX | HB500 | Pass | Relating to making supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding appropriations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-22
Effective immediately |
| TX | SB226 | Pass | Relating to establishing residency for children who are the subject of parental child safety placement agreements for purposes of admission into public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective immediately |
| TX | HB694 | Pass | Relating to the notification of certain persons concerning certain events related to children in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB1211 | Pass | Relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for certain students who were under the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB1403 | Pass | Relating to the collection and confidentiality of information regarding firearms in agency foster homes; creating a civil penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | SB500 | Pass | Relating to access to certain information in the adoption process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB2071 | Pass | Relating to certain policies and procedures for health care specialty consultations in certain child abuse or neglect investigations and assessments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | SB1141 | Pass | Relating to confirming the provision of certain notices before the full adversary hearing in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB2789 | Pass | Relating to the regulation of child welfare, including licensure, community-based care contractors, family homes, and child-care facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
See remarks for effective date |
| TX | SB1398 | Pass | Relating to certain procedures in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship for a child placed in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services and the provision of family preservation services and community-based foste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB2 | Pass | Relating to public education and public school finance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
See remarks for effective date |
| TX | SB1558 | Pass | Relating to the liability of nonprofit entities contracted with the Department of Family and Protective Services or with a single source continuum contractor to provide community-based care or child welfare services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | SB1589 | Pass | Relating to the contract requirements for a contract between a single source continuum contractor and the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | SB1946 | Pass | Relating to the creation of a family violence criminal homicide prevention task force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB140 | Pass | Relating to advisory bodies for the Department of Family and Protective Services, including the creation of the child protective investigations advisory committee and the abolition of the Family and Protective Services Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
See remarks for effective date |
| TX | HB3963 | Pass | Relating to an early childhood integrated data system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB4129 | Pass | Relating to the contract requirements for a contract between a single source continuum contractor and the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB4377 | Pass | Relating to the retention of certain genetic material and genetic information by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB4655 | Pass | Relating to the Preparation for Adult Living Program and other services for foster children transitioning to independent living.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB4795 | Pass | Relating to duties of the vital statistics unit of the Department of State Health Services in relation to certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship, including in regard to the electronic transmission of certain information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB4903 | Pass | Relating to the establishment of the Quad-Agency Child Care Initiative and the Quad-Agency Child Care Initiative Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective immediately |
| TX | HB5149 | Pass | Relating to restricting the collection and use of DNA samples from children in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB3597 | Pass | Relating to public hearing requirements for issuing a license for or expanding certain residential child-care facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB2350 | Pass | Relating to standing in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB451 | Pass | Relating to a screening for the risk of commercial sexual exploitation of certain children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-29
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB1778 | Pass | Relating to human trafficking, prostitution, and child pornography and to the prosecution of sexual or assaultive offenses or the prosecution of a failure to stop or report those offenses; amending and harmonizing certain statute of limitations provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-29
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB1151 | Pass | Relating to neglect of a child and the grounds for termination of the parent-child relationship and possession of a child by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-28
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB2809 | Pass | Relating to required reporting by the Department of Family and Protective Services regarding youth in the managing conservatorship of the department who attempt suicide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-28
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB3748 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to reimbursing employees of the Department of Family and Protective Services for loss of or damage to personal property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-28
Placed on intent calendar |
| TX | HB4730 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the voluntary relinquishment of parental rights, adoption, and the regulation of child-placing agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-28
Placed on intent calendar |
| TX | SB596 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to reporting certain information regarding the placement of children and suits filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-27
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | SB1143 | Pass | Relating to certain planning and evaluation requirements with respect to certain workforce development programs in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-27
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | SB2041 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to procedures for selecting a placement for a child in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-27
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB2542 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the establishment of a work group to study and make recommendations on certain services needed by individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | HB3750 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to reimbursing certain Department of Family and Protective Services employees for certain legal expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | SB1524 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the collection and confidentiality of information regarding firearms in agency foster homes; creating a civil penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| TX | SB855 | Pass | Relating to the authority of certain medical consenters to assume financial responsibility for certain out-of-network medical care provided to children in foster care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB2070 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to individuals whose name may be added to the central child abuse or neglect registry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | HB2807 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the statewide intellectual and developmental disability coordinating council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-19
To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | SB2034 | Pass | Relating to the receivership of a single-source continuum contractor providing child welfare services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-19
Effective immediately |
| TX | SB2032 | Pass | Relating to certain requirements regarding a contract between a single source continuum contractor and the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-19
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB330 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to reporting and investigating certain cases of child abuse or neglect involving a pregnant person's use of a controlled substance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB3453 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the liability of nonprofit entities contracted with the Department of Family and Protective Services or with a single source continuum contractor to provide community-based care or child welfare services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB3941 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to services provided to foster youth transitioning to independent living, including transitional living services and Medicaid eligibility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB741 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the procedures for the removal of certain children in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services and monetary assistance provided by the Department of Family and Protective Services to certain relativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-14
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB1784 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to measures to assist students enrolled at public institutions of higher education who are homeless or who are or were in foster care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-14
Received from the House |
| TX | HB3282 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to certain procedures in suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-14
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| TX | HB4421 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to available resources of certain state agencies to support and sustain peer-recovery organizations in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-14
Received from the House |
| TX | SB513 | Pass | Relating to a rural community-based care pilot program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB1534 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to confirming the provision of certain notices before the full adversary hearing in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
