| 1 | 1 | | By: Parker (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 807 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2011; |
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| 3 | 3 | | May 9, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Health |
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| 4 | 4 | | and Human Services; May 20, 2011, reported favorably by the |
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| 5 | 5 | | following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 20, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | 6 | | |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to the notice provided to a foster parent before a change |
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| 11 | 11 | | in a child's foster care placement. |
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| 12 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 264, Family Code, is |
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| 14 | 14 | | amended by adding Section 264.119 to read as follows: |
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| 15 | 15 | | Sec. 264.119. NOTICE OF CHANGE OF PLACEMENT. (a) In this |
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| 16 | 16 | | section, "residential child-care facility" and "child-placing |
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| 17 | 17 | | agency" have the meanings assigned by Section 42.002, Human |
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| 18 | 18 | | Resources Code. |
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| 19 | 19 | | (b) Except in the case of an emergency or as otherwise |
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| 20 | 20 | | provided by a court order or agreed to by a residential child-care |
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| 21 | 21 | | facility or child-placing agency, the department must provide |
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| 22 | 22 | | written notice to the residential child-care facility and any |
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| 23 | 23 | | child-placing agency involved with a child before the department |
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| 24 | 24 | | may change the child's residential child-care facility. |
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| 25 | 25 | | (c) The department must provide the notice required under |
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| 26 | 26 | | Subsection (b) at least 48 hours before the residential child-care |
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| 27 | 27 | | facility is changed. |
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| 28 | 28 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
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| 29 | 29 | | * * * * * |
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