Bill Text: TX HB2764 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to minimum standards and caregiver training for substitute care providers for children in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2764 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2764-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to minimum standards and caregiver training for substitute care providers for children in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2764 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2764-Introduced.html
86R4268 MM-F | ||
By: Frank | H.B. No. 2764 |
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relating to caregiver training for substitute care providers for | ||
children in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 42.0537(a) and (b), Human Resources | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The department shall include a provision in each | ||
contract with a child-placing agency with whom children in the | ||
managing conservatorship of the department are placed that requires | ||
the child-placing agency to provide [ |
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competency-based, preservice training to a potential caregiver | ||
before the child-placing agency verifies or approves the caregiver | ||
as a foster or adoptive home. The amount of training required by | ||
this subsection may not exceed 35 hours. | ||
(b) The department shall adopt policies to ensure that each | ||
potential caregiver receives [ |
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competency-based, preservice training before the department | ||
verifies or approves the caregiver as a foster or adoptive home. | ||
The amount of training required by this subsection may not exceed 35 | ||
hours. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |