H.B. No. 3137
AN ACT
relating to requiring the Department of Family and Protective
Services to develop and provide certain foster parents with a
statement regarding the rights and responsibilities of those
persons and the agency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Human Resources Code,
is amended by adding Section 42.0452 to read as follows:
Sec. 42.0452. FOSTER PARENT RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
STATEMENT. (a) The department shall develop a statement that lists
the rights and responsibilities of a foster parent in a foster home
or an agency foster home and of the department or a child-placing
agency, as applicable.
(b) The department shall provide a written copy of the
statement developed under Subsection (a) to each foster parent in a
foster home and to each child-placing agency licensed by the
department. A child-placing agency shall provide a written copy of
the statement developed under Subsection (a) to each foster parent
in an agency foster home verified by the child-placing agency.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3137 was passed by the House on May 6,
2009, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 1, 1 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3137 was passed by the Senate on May
21, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor