87R2457 MM-D
By: White, Minjarez, J. Johnson of Harris H.B. No. 542
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to foster care placement in and the licensing of certain
residential child-care facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 264.107, Family Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
(h) The department by rule shall establish guidelines for
the placement of a child in a residential child-care facility at
which a preventable death, as defined by Section 264.501, of a child
in the managing conservatorship of the department occurred.
SECTION 2. Section 42.046, Human Resources Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (e-1) to read as follows:
(e-1) The commission shall deny an application under this
section if:
(1) the applicant operated a residential child-care
facility at which a preventable death, as defined by Section
264.501, Family Code, of a child in the managing conservatorship of
the department occurred; and
(2) the commission terminated a contract with the
residential child-care facility as the result of the preventable
death.
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act to Section
42.046, Human Resources Code, apply only to an application for a
license submitted to the Health and Human Services Commission on or
after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.