Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1		By: Hancock S.B. No. 1589
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	2	+	(In the Senate - Filed February 24, 2025; March 10, 2025,
	3	+	read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human
	4	+	Services; March 31, 2025, reported favorably by the following
	5	+	vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 31, 2025, sent to printer.)
	6	+	Click here to see the committee vote
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6	9		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
7	10		AN ACT
8	11		relating to the contract requirements for a contract between a
9	12		single source continuum contractor and the Department of Family and
10	13		Protective Services.
11	14		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	15		SECTION 1. Section 264.155(a), Family Code, is amended to
13	16		read as follows:
14	17		(a) A contract with a single source continuum contractor to
15	18		provide community-based care services in a catchment area must
16	19		include provisions that:
17	20		(1) establish a timeline for the implementation of
18	21		community-based care in the catchment area, including a timeline
19	22		for implementing:
20	23		(A) case management services for children,
21	24		families, and relative and kinship caregivers receiving services in
22	25		the catchment area; and
23	26		(B) family reunification support services to be
24	27		provided after a child receiving services from the contractor is
25	28		returned to the child's family;
26	29		(2) establish conditions for the single source
27	30		continuum contractor's access to relevant department data and
28	31		require the participation of the contractor in the data access and
29	32		standards governance council created under Section 264.159;
30	33		(3) require the single source continuum contractor to
31	34		create a single process for the training and use of alternative
32	35		caregivers for all child-placing agencies in the catchment area to
33	36		facilitate reciprocity of licenses for alternative caregivers
34	37		between agencies, including respite and overnight care providers,
35	38		as those terms are defined by department rule;
36	39		(4) require the single source continuum contractor to
37	40		maintain a diverse network of service providers that offer a range
38	41		of foster capacity options and that can accommodate children from
39	42		diverse cultural backgrounds;
40	43		(5) allow the department to conduct a performance
41	44		review of the contractor beginning 18 months after the contractor
42	45		has begun providing case management and family reunification
43	46		support services to all children and families in the catchment area
44	47		and determine if the contractor has achieved any performance
45	48		outcomes specified in the contract;
46	49		(6) following the review under Subdivision (5), allow
47	50		the department to:
48	51		(A) impose financial penalties on the contractor
49	52		for failing to meet any specified performance outcomes; or
50	53		(B) award financial incentives to the contractor
51	54		for exceeding any specified performance outcomes;
52	55		(7) require the contractor to give preference for
53	56		employment to employees of the department:
54	57		(A) whose position at the department is impacted
55	58		by the implementation of community-based care; and
56	59		(B) who are considered by the department to be
57	60		employees in good standing;
58	61		(8) require the contractor to provide preliminary and
59	62		ongoing community engagement plans to ensure communication and
60	63		collaboration with local stakeholders in the catchment area,
61	64		including any of the following:
62	65		(A) community faith-based entities;
63	66		(B) the judiciary;
64	67		(C) court-appointed special advocates;
65	68		(D) child advocacy centers;
66	69		(E) service providers;
67	70		(F) foster families;
68	71		(G) biological parents;
69	72		(H) foster youth and former foster youth;
70	73		(I) relative or kinship caregivers;
71	74		(J) child welfare boards, if applicable;
72	75		(K) attorneys ad litem;
73	76		(L) attorneys that represent parents involved in
74	77		suits filed by the department; and
75	78		(M) any other stakeholders, as determined by the
76	79		contractor; [and]
77	80		(9) require that the contractor comply with any
78	81		applicable court order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction
79	82		in the case of a child for whom the contractor has assumed case
80	83		management responsibilities or an order imposing a requirement on
81	84		the department that relates to functions assumed by the contractor;
82	85		and
83	86		(10) allow the department, at the department's sole
84	87		discretion, to:
85	88		(A) reclaim the case management authority over
86	89		any or all of the cases in a catchment area from the single source
87	90		continuum contractor; or
88	91		(B) transfer the case management authority over
89	92		any or all of the cases in a catchment area from the single source
90	93		continuum contractor to another single source continuum
91	94		contractor.
92	95		SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
93	96		to a contract entered into or amended, modified, renewed, or
94	97		extended on after the effective date of this Act. A contract
95	98		entered into or amended, modified, renewed, or extended before the
96	99		effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
97	100		date the contract was entered into or amended, modified, renewed,
98	101		or extended, and the former law is continued in effect for that
99	102		purpose.
100	103		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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