Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	By: West, Menéndez S.B. No. 596
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6	6	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
7	7	AN ACT
8	8	relating to reporting certain information regarding the placement
9	9	of children and suits filed by the Department of Family and
10	10	Protective Services.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Sections 264.017(b) and (f), Family Code, are
13	13	amended to read as follows:
14	14	(b) The department shall provide the report required by
15	15	Subsection (a) to the legislature and shall publish the report and
16	16	make the report available electronically to the public not later
17	17	than February 1 of each year. The report must include, with respect
18	18	to the preceding year:
19	19	(1) information on the number and disposition of
20	20	reports of child abuse and neglect received by the department;
21	21	(2) information on the number of clients for whom the
22	22	department took protective action, including investigations,
23	23	alternative responses, and court-ordered removals;
24	24	(3) information on the number of clients for whom the
25	25	department provided services in each program administered by the
26	26	child protective services division, including investigations,
27	27	alternative responses, family-based safety services,
28	28	conservatorship, post-adoption services, and transitional living
29	29	services;
30	30	(4) the number of children in this state who died as a
31	31	result of child abuse or neglect;
32	32	(5) the number of children described by Subdivision
33	33	(4) for whom the department was the children's managing conservator
34	34	at the time of death;
35	35	(6) information on the timeliness of the department's
36	36	initial contact in an investigation or alternative response;
37	37	(7) information on the response time by the department
38	38	in commencing services to families and children for whom an
39	39	allegation of child abuse or neglect has been made;
40	40	(8) information regarding child protection staffing
41	41	and caseloads by program area;
42	42	(9) information on the permanency goals in place and
43	43	achieved for children in the managing conservatorship of the
44	44	department, including information on the timeliness of achieving
45	45	the goals, the stability of the children's placement in foster
46	46	care, and the proximity of placements to the children's home
47	47	counties;
48	48	(10) the number of children who suffer from a severe
49	49	emotional disturbance and for whom the department is appointed
50	50	managing conservator, including statistics on appointments as
51	51	joint managing conservator, due to an individual voluntarily
52	52	relinquishing custody of a child solely to obtain mental health
53	53	services for the child;
54	54	(11) the number of children who are pregnant or a
55	55	parent while in the managing conservatorship of the department and
56	56	the number of the children born to a parent in the managing
57	57	conservatorship of the department who are placed in the managing
58	58	conservatorship of the department;
59	59	(12) the number of children who are missing from the
60	60	children's substitute care provider while in the managing
61	61	conservatorship of the department; [and]
62	62	(13) the number of children who were victims of
63	63	trafficking under Chapter 20A, Penal Code, while in the managing
64	64	conservatorship of the department; and
65	65	(14) information on the outcome of each suit filed by
66	66	the department and the type of placement of the child during the
67	67	pendency of the suit.
68	68	(f) In addition to the other reports required by this
69	69	section, the department shall publish on the department's Internet
70	70	website a monthly report containing the following information for
71	71	the preceding month:
72	72	(1) with respect to parental child safety placement
73	73	agreements:
74	74	(A) [(1)] the number of children placed under a
75	75	parental child safety placement agreement, disaggregated by:
76	76	(i) the child's age, race, gender,
77	77	ethnicity, and county of residence;
78	78	(ii) the annualized incomes of the parent
79	79	or other person with whom the child resides and the caregiver of the
80	80	child; and
81	81	(iii) whether the child has previously been
82	82	in the managing conservatorship of the department;
83	83	(B) the number of parental child safety placement
84	84	agreements in effect on the last day of the month;
85	85	(C) [(2)] the average duration of a placement
86	86	under a parental child safety placement agreement;
87	87	(D) [(3)] the average duration of a placement
88	88	under a parental child safety placement agreement during an
89	89	investigation; and
90	90	(E) [(4)] the percentage of children removed
91	91	from a placement under a parental child safety placement agreement
92	92	and placed in the managing conservatorship of the department; and
93	93	(2) by child protective services region with respect
94	94	to:
95	95	(A) authorization agreements executed under
96	96	Chapter 34 regarding a child who is the subject of an investigation
97	97	of abuse or neglect, a suit filed by the department, or an agreement
98	98	under which the department provides services to the child's parent:
99	99	(i) the number of authorization agreements
100	100	executed;
101	101	(ii) the number of children subject to
102	102	authorization agreements, disaggregated by the child's race and
103	103	gender; and
104	104	(iii) the average duration of an
105	105	authorization agreement; and
106	106	(B) court orders for temporary authorization for
107	107	care of a child under Chapter 35 regarding a child who is the
108	108	subject of an investigation of abuse or neglect, a suit filed by the
109	109	department, or an agreement under which the department provides
110	110	services to the child's parent:
111	111	(i) the number of orders signed;
112	112	(ii) the number of children subject to
113	113	orders, disaggregated by the child's race and gender; and
114	114	(iii) the average duration of an order.
115	115	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.