Bill Text: TX HB637 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the payment of permanency care assistance after a child's 18th birthday.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-02 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB637 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB637-Engrossed.html
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By: Bailes, Rose, Harris of Anderson | H.B. No. 637 |
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relating to the payment of permanency care assistance after a | ||
child's 18th birthday. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 264.852, Family Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) A permanency care assistance agreement shall provide | ||
for permanency care assistance payments until the later of: | ||
(1) the last day of the month of the child's 18th | ||
birthday; or | ||
(2) if the child is regularly attending high school or | ||
enrolled in a program leading toward a high school diploma or high | ||
school equivalency certificate, the last day of the month in which | ||
the child graduates from high school or completes a program leading | ||
toward a high school diploma or high school equivalency | ||
certificate. | ||
SECTION 2. The heading to Section 264.855, Family Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 264.855. CONTINUED ELIGIBILITY FOR PERMANENCY CARE | ||
ASSISTANCE BENEFITS UNTIL [ |
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SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies to a | ||
permanency care assistance agreement entered into on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. A permanency care assistance agreement | ||
entered into before the effective date of this Act is governed by | ||
the law in effect on the date the agreement was entered into, and | ||
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |