Bill Text: TX HB2370 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to certain notice to applicants to provide care under the permanency care assistance program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2370 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2370-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2370 |
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relating to certain notice to applicants to provide care under the | ||
permanency care assistance program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter K, Chapter 264, Family Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 264.8521 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 264.8521. NOTICE TO APPLICANTS. At the time a person | ||
applies to become licensed by the department or verified by a | ||
licensed child-placing agency or the department to provide foster | ||
care in order to qualify for the permanency care assistance | ||
program, the department or the child-placing agency shall: | ||
(1) notify the applicant that a background check, | ||
including a criminal history record check, will be conducted on the | ||
individual; and | ||
(2) inform the applicant about criminal convictions | ||
that: | ||
(A) preclude an individual from becoming a | ||
licensed foster home or verified agency foster home; and | ||
(B) may also be considered in evaluating the | ||
individual's application. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 264.8521, Family Code, as added by this | ||
Act, applies to an application to become a licensed foster home or | ||
verified agency foster home filed with the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services or a child-placing agency on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. An application to become a licensed | ||
foster home or verified agency foster home filed before the | ||
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect | ||
immediately before that date, and that law is continued in effect | ||
for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2370 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
2011, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2370 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |