85R1649 GCB-D
By: Wu H.B. No. 704
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the required submission by certain general residential
operations of information requested by courts.
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 42.066 to read as follows:
Sec. 42.066. REQUIRED SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION REQUESTED
BY COURT. A general residential operation that provides mental
health treatment or services to a child in the managing
conservatorship of the department shall timely submit to the court
in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship under Subtitle E,
Title 5, Family Code, all information requested by that court.
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, 2017.