2025S0226-1 03/12/25
By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 2583
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to residential treatment facilities for certain
juveniles.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 554.001(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The department shall designate facilities for use [the
Waco Center for Youth] as [a] residential treatment facilities
[facility] for emotionally disturbed juveniles who:
(1) have been admitted under Subtitle C to a facility
of the department; or
(2) are under the managing conservatorship of the
Department of Family and Protective Services and have been admitted
under Subtitle C to the designated facilities [Waco Center for
Youth].
SECTION 2. Sections 554.002(a), (b), and (c), Health and
Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The department shall provide without charge appropriate
education services for all clients residing at the designated
facilities [Waco Center for Youth].
(b) The department shall pay for those services from funds
appropriated to the designated facilities [center] for those
purposes [that purpose].
(c) A client of the center who is not a resident of the local
school district [Waco Independent School District] may receive
education services from the local school district [Waco Independent
School District] only with the prior approval of the superintendent
of the district.
SECTION 3. 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, 2025.