Bill Text: TX HB3559 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to reimbursement of foster parents and certain former foster children for expenses related to obtaining or renewing a driver's license and obtaining insurance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3559 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3559-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Swanson | H.B. No. 3559 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3559: | |||
By: Miller | C.S.H.B. No. 3559 |
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relating to reimbursement of foster parents and certain former | ||
foster children for expenses related to obtaining or renewing a | ||
driver's license and obtaining insurance. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 264, Family Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 264.1252 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 264.1252. REIMBURSEMENT FOR EXPENSES RELATING TO | ||
OBTAINING OR RENEWING A DRIVER'S LICENSE AND OBTAINING INSURANCE. | ||
(a) The department shall reimburse a foster parent for any monetary | ||
expenses relating to obtaining: | ||
(1) a driver's license for a foster child, including | ||
the cost for completing a driver education course required by | ||
Section 521.1601, Transportation Code, and the driver's license | ||
fee; and | ||
(2) liability insurance for the foster child that | ||
meets the minimum requirements of Subchapter D, Chapter 601, | ||
Transportation Code. | ||
(b) The department shall reimburse a former foster child | ||
younger than 21 years of age for any monetary expenses relating to: | ||
(1) obtaining or renewing a driver's license, | ||
including the cost for completing a driver education course | ||
required by Section 521.1601, Transportation Code, and the driver's | ||
license fee; and | ||
(2) obtaining liability insurance that meets the | ||
minimum requirements of Subchapter D, Chapter 601, Transportation | ||
Code. | ||
(c) Subsection (b) applies only to a former foster child who | ||
was in the conservatorship of the department on the day preceding | ||
the former foster child's 18th birthday. | ||
(d) A person entitled to reimbursement for expenses under | ||
this section must provide the department with receipts for the | ||
expenses to receive reimbursement. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 264.1252, Family Code, as added by this | ||
Act, applies only to an expense relating to obtaining a driver's | ||
license or insurance for a foster child or obtaining or renewing a | ||
driver's license or obtaining insurance for a former foster child | ||
incurred on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |