Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	89R3730 RAL-D
2	2	By: Gervin-Hawkins H.B. No. 1440
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to the Department of Family and Protective Services'
10	10	annual report of key performance measures and data elements for
11	11	child protection; authorizing a penalty.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. Section 264.001, Family Code, is amended by
14	14	adding Subdivision (6) to read as follows:
15	15	(6) "Substitute care" has the meaning assigned by
16	16	Section 263.001.
17	17	SECTION 2. Section 264.017, Family Code, is amended by
18	18	amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (g) to read as
19	19	follows:
20	20	(b) The department shall provide the report required by
21	21	Subsection (a) to the legislature and shall publish the report and
22	22	make the report available electronically to the public, including
23	23	by posting the report on the department's Internet website, not
24	24	later than February 1 of each year. The report must include, with
25	25	respect to the preceding year:
26	26	(1) information on the number and disposition of
27	27	reports of child abuse and neglect received by the department;
28	28	(2) information on the number of children [clients]
29	29	for whom the department took protective action, including
30	30	investigations, alternative responses, and court-ordered removals;
31	31	(3) information on the number of children [clients]
32	32	for whom the department provided services in each program
33	33	administered by the child protective services division, including
34	34	investigations, alternative responses, family-based safety
35	35	services, conservatorship, post-adoption services, and
36	36	transitional living services;
37	37	(4) the number of children in this state who died as a
38	38	result of child abuse or neglect;
39	39	(5) the number of children described by Subdivision
40	40	(4) for whom the department was the children's managing conservator
41	41	at the time of death;
42	42	(6) information on the timeliness of the department's
43	43	initial contact in an investigation or alternative response;
44	44	(7) information on the response time by the department
45	45	in commencing services to families and children for whom an
46	46	allegation of child abuse or neglect has been made;
47	47	(8) information regarding child protection staffing
48	48	and caseloads by program area;
49	49	(9) information on the permanency goals in place and
50	50	achieved for children in the managing conservatorship of the
51	51	department, including information on the timeliness of achieving
52	52	the goals, the stability of the children's placement in foster
53	53	care, and the proximity of placements to the children's home
54	54	counties;
55	55	(10) the number of children who suffer from a severe
56	56	emotional disturbance and for whom the department is appointed
57	57	managing conservator, including statistics on appointments as
58	58	joint managing conservator, due to an individual voluntarily
59	59	relinquishing custody of a child solely to obtain mental health
60	60	services for the child;
61	61	(11) the number of children who are pregnant or a
62	62	parent while in the managing conservatorship of the department and
63	63	the number of the children born to a parent in the managing
64	64	conservatorship of the department who are placed in the managing
65	65	conservatorship of the department;
66	66	(12) the number of children who are missing from the
67	67	children's substitute care provider while in the managing
68	68	conservatorship of the department; [and]
69	69	(13) of the children identified under Subdivision
70	70	(12):
71	71	(A) the number of children who were located and
72	72	returned to substitute care;
73	73	(B) the actions taken by the department to locate
74	74	those children; and
75	75	(C) the outcome of each child's case;
76	76	(14) the number of children who were victims of
77	77	trafficking under Chapter 20A, Penal Code, while in the managing
78	78	conservatorship of the department;
79	79	(15) of the children identified under Subdivision
80	80	(14):
81	81	(A) the actions taken by the department to
82	82	resolve each case; and
83	83	(B) the outcome of each child's case;
84	84	(16) information on the program under Subchapter I,
85	85	including:
86	86	(A) the number of children placed with a relative
87	87	or designated caregiver;
88	88	(B) the percentage of children in the managing
89	89	conservatorship of the department who are placed with a relative or
90	90	designated caregiver;
91	91	(C) statistics on the age and race of the
92	92	children placed with a relative or designated caregiver;
93	93	(D) the number of children placed with a relative
94	94	or designated caregiver who were part of a sibling group;
95	95	(E) the number of relative or designated
96	96	caregivers who receive financial assistance; and
97	97	(F) outcome information for children placed with
98	98	a relative or designated caregiver including:
99	99	(i) how many months children spent with a
100	100	relative or designated caregiver before a case was closed;
101	101	(ii) the rates of types of resolutions for
102	102	closed cases; and
103	103	(iii) statistics comparing the outcomes for
104	104	relative or designated caregiver placements with and without
105	105	financial assistance;
106	106	(17) information on the number of substitute care
107	107	providers, other than relative or designated caregivers, who
108	108	received financial assistance;
109	109	(18) the number of complaints brought against
110	110	substitute care providers;
111	111	(19) the number of children in relative or designated
112	112	caregiver placements reunified with their families; and
113	113	(20) the number of children in substitute care, other
114	114	than relative or designated caregiver placements, reunified with
115	115	their families.
116	116	(g) The comptroller shall assess a penalty against the
117	117	department in the amount of $1,000 for each day after February 1 the
118	118	department has not filed the report under Subsection (b). The
119	119	comptroller shall reallocate the amount assessed as a penalty under
120	120	this subsection as necessary to allow the department to use the
121	121	money to provide monetary assistance to relative and other
122	122	designated caregivers under Section 264.755.
123	123	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.