| TX | SB226 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-05-22
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB1211 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-05-22
[Hearing: May 22 @ 9:45 am]
To Senate Education K-16 Committee |
| TX | SB1141 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-05-22
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | SB1398 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-05-22
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB2 | Engross
50% | Relating to public education and public school finance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
Placed on intent calendar |
| TX | HB694 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-05-21
Signed in the House |
| TX | HB1403 | Engross
50% | Relating to the collection and confidentiality of information regarding firearms in agency foster homes; creating a civil penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | SB500 | Engross
50% | Relating to access to certain information in the adoption process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Committee report distributed |
| 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
50% | 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 | HB2071 | Enroll
75% | Relating to certain policies and procedures for health care specialty consultations in certain child abuse or neglect investigations and assessments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Reported enrolled |
| TX | HB2789 | Enroll
75% | Relating to the regulation of child welfare, including licensure, community-based care contractors, family homes, and child-care facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Signed in the House |
| TX | SB1524 | Engross
50% | Relating to the collection and confidentiality of information regarding firearms in agency foster homes; creating a civil penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Committee report distributed |
| TX | SB1558 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-05-21
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| TX | SB1589 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-05-21
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | SB1946 | Engross
50% | Relating to the creation of a family violence criminal homicide prevention task force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
To House Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| TX | HB3963 | Engross
50% | Relating to an early childhood integrated data system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | HB4377 | Engross
50% | Relating to the retention of certain genetic material and genetic information by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Vote taken in committee |
| TX | HB4655 | Engross
50% | Relating to the Preparation for Adult Living Program and other services for foster children transitioning to independent living.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Senate passage reported |
| TX | HB4795 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-05-21
To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | HB2350 | Engross
50% | Relating to standing in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Senate passage reported |
| TX | HB451 | Enroll
75% | Relating to a screening for the risk of commercial sexual exploitation of certain children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Sent to the Governor |
| TX | SB596 | Engross
50% | Relating to reporting certain information regarding the placement of children and suits filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To House Human Services Committee |
| TX | HB140 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-05-20
House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported |
| TX | SB2041 | Engross
50% | Relating to factors the Department of Family and Protective Services must consider when selecting a foster care placement for a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To House Human Services Committee |
| TX | HB4129 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | HB4730 | Engross
50% | Relating to the voluntary relinquishment of parental rights, adoption, and the regulation of child-placing agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | HB4903 | Engross
50% | Relating to the establishment of the Quad-Agency Child Care Initiative and the Quad-Agency Child Care Initiative Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | HB5149 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | HB1778 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-05-20
Sent to the Governor |
| TX | HB2807 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB1151 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-05-16
Sent to the Governor |
| TX | HB2809 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-05-16
Sent to the Governor |
| TX | HB330 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB1143 | Enroll
75% | Relating to certain planning and evaluation requirements with respect to certain workforce development programs in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Sent to the Governor |
| TX | HB3453 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 | HB3597 | Engross
50% | Relating to public hearing requirements for issuing a license for or expanding certain residential child-care facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Committee report printed and distributed |
| TX | HB741 | Intro
25% | 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
50% | 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
25% | 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
50% | 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
50% | 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 |
| TX | SB577 | Intro
25% | Relating to the establishment of the foster child trust account program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | SB1528 | Intro
25% | Relating to reimbursing employees of the Department of Family and Protective Services for loss of or damage to personal property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-12
Not again placed on intent calendar |
| TX | HB7 | Intro
25% | Relating to parental rights in public education, to the creation of the office of inspector general at the Texas Education Agency, and to the reporting of certain misconduct and child abuse and neglect; creating a criminal offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| TX | SB640 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-05-07
Co-author authorized |
