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