| 1 | 1 | | By: Watson S.B. No. 1289 |
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| 4 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 6 | | relating to a Department of Family and Protective Services plan to |
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| 7 | 7 | | address the substitute care capacity needs in certain department |
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| 8 | 8 | | regions. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Section 264.1261(b), Family Code, as added by |
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| 11 | 11 | | Chapter 319 (S.B. 11), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular |
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| 12 | 12 | | Session, 2017, is amended to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | (b) Appropriate department management personnel from a |
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| 14 | 14 | | child protective services region in which community-based care has |
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| 15 | 15 | | not been implemented, in collaboration with foster care providers, |
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| 16 | 16 | | faith-based entities, and child advocates in that region, shall use |
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| 17 | 17 | | data collected by the department on foster care capacity needs and |
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| 18 | 18 | | availability of each type of foster care and kinship placement in |
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| 19 | 19 | | the region to create a plan to address the substitute care capacity |
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| 20 | 20 | | needs in the region. The plan must identify: |
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| 21 | 21 | | (1) [both] short-term and long-term goals and |
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| 22 | 22 | | strategies for addressing those capacity needs; and |
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| 23 | 23 | | (2) the capacity and geographic distribution of the |
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| 24 | 24 | | following foster placements: |
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| 25 | 25 | | (A) licensed residential family-based substance |
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| 26 | 26 | | use treatment facilities; |
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| 27 | 27 | | (B) qualified residential treatment programs as |
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| 28 | 28 | | defined in the federal Family First Prevention Services Act (Title |
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| 29 | 29 | | VII, Div. E, Pub. L. No. 115-123); |
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| 30 | 30 | | (C) settings specializing in providing prenatal, |
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| 31 | 31 | | post-partum, or parenting supports for youth; |
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| 32 | 32 | | (D) supervised settings in which a child who has |
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| 33 | 33 | | attained 18 years of age is living independently; and |
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| 34 | 34 | | (E) settings providing high-quality residential |
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| 35 | 35 | | care to children and youth who have been found to be, or are at risk |
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| 36 | 36 | | of becoming, sex trafficking victims. |
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| 37 | 37 | | SECTION 2. Sections 264.1261(a) and (b), Family Code, as |
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| 38 | 38 | | added by Chapter 822 (H.B. 1549), Acts of the 85th Legislature, |
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| 39 | 39 | | Regular Session, 2017, are repealed. |
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| 40 | 40 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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