85R12253 LHC-D
By: Moody H.B. No. 3164
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the standards for substance abuse facilities and
programs operated by juvenile probation departments.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 221.002, Human Resources Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (f) to
read as follows:
(a) The board shall adopt reasonable rules that provide:
(1) minimum standards for personnel, staffing, case
loads, programs, facilities, record keeping, equipment, and other
aspects of the operation of a juvenile board that are necessary to
provide adequate and effective probation services;
(2) a code of ethics for probation and detention
officers and for the enforcement of that code;
(3) appropriate educational, preservice and
in-service training, and certification standards for probation and
detention officers or court-supervised community-based program
personnel;
(4) subject to Subsection (d), minimum standards for
public and private juvenile pre-adjudication secure detention
facilities, public juvenile post-adjudication secure correctional
facilities that are operated under the authority of a juvenile
board or governmental unit, private juvenile post-adjudication
secure correctional facilities operated under a contract with a
governmental unit, except those facilities exempt from
certification by Section 42.052(g), and nonsecure correctional
facilities operated by or under contract with a governmental unit;
[and]
(5) minimum standards for juvenile justice
alternative education programs created under Section 37.011,
Education Code, in collaboration and conjunction with the Texas
Education Agency, or its designee; and
(6) minimum standards for the operation of substance
abuse facilities or programs by juvenile probation departments.
(f) A substance abuse facility or program operating under
the standards adopted under this section is not required to be
licensed or otherwise approved by any other state or local agency.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.