Bill Text: TX HB4263 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to developing a strategic plan to ensure the provision of prevention and early intervention services complies with federal law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-25 - Referred to Human Services [HB4263 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4263-Introduced.html
86R2946 MM-D | ||
By: Klick | H.B. No. 4263 |
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relating to developing a strategic plan to ensure the provision of | ||
prevention and early intervention services complies with federal | ||
law. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 265, Family Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 265.0051 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 265.0051. STRATEGIC PLAN REGARDING FEDERAL FAMILY | ||
FIRST PREVENTION SERVICES ACT. (a) The department shall develop a | ||
strategic plan to ensure that the provision of prevention and early | ||
intervention services meets the requirements of the federal Family | ||
First Prevention Services Act (Title VII, Div. E, Pub. L. | ||
No. 115-123). | ||
(b) The strategic plan required under this section must: | ||
(1) identify for federal approval a network of | ||
prevention and early intervention services providers to provide | ||
mental health, substance use, and in-home parenting support | ||
services for: | ||
(A) children at risk of entering foster care; | ||
(B) the parents and caregivers of children | ||
identified under Paragraph (A); and | ||
(C) pregnant or parenting youth in foster care; | ||
(2) identify methods to: | ||
(A) maximize resources from the federal | ||
government under the federal Family First Prevention Services Act | ||
(Title VII, Div. E, Pub. L. No. 115-123); | ||
(B) apply for other available federal and private | ||
funds; | ||
(C) streamline and reduce duplication of effort | ||
by each state agency involved in providing prevention and early | ||
intervention services; and | ||
(D) streamline the procedures for determining | ||
eligibility for prevention and early intervention services; | ||
(3) include a method to: | ||
(A) notify the Senate Health and Human Services | ||
Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, the House Committee on | ||
Human Services, the House Committee on Public Health, and the House | ||
Appropriations Committee of federal and private funding | ||
opportunities; and | ||
(B) respond to the opportunities described by | ||
Paragraph (A); and | ||
(4) identify opportunities to coordinate with | ||
independent researchers to assist community programs in evaluating | ||
and developing trauma-informed services and promising, supported, | ||
or well-supported services and strategies under the federal Family | ||
First Prevention Services Act (Title VII, Div. E, Pub. L. | ||
No. 115-123). | ||
(c) In developing the network of providers described by | ||
Subsection (b)(1), the department shall consult with the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission, the Department of State Health Services, | ||
and community stakeholders. | ||
(d) In developing the procedure described by Subsection | ||
(b)(2), the department shall consult with the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission and the Department of State Health Services. | ||
(e) This section expires March 1, 2021. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2020, the Department | ||
of Family and Protective Services shall make the plan required by | ||
Section 265.0051, Family Code, as added by this Act, available to | ||
the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, the Senate Finance | ||
Committee, the House Committee on Human Services, the House | ||
Committee on Public Health, and the House Appropriations Committee. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |