Bill Text: TX SB1289 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 1289 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a Department of Family and Protective Services plan to address the substitute care capacity needs in certain department regions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-07 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1289 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1289-Introduced.html



	By: Watson	S.B. No. 1289


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a Department of Family and Protective Services plan to
	address the substitute care capacity needs in certain department
	regions.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 264.1261(b), Family Code, as added by
	Chapter 319 (S.B. 11), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular
	Session, 2017, is amended to read as follows:
	(b) Appropriate department management personnel from a
	child protective services region in which community-based care has
	not been implemented, in collaboration with foster care providers,
	faith-based entities, and child advocates in that region, shall use
	data collected by the department on foster care capacity needs and
	availability of each type of foster care and kinship placement in
	the region to create a plan to address the substitute care capacity
	needs in the region. The plan must identify:
	(1) [~~both~~] short-term and long-term goals and
	strategies for addressing those capacity needs; and
	(2) the capacity and geographic distribution of the
	following foster placements:
	(A) licensed residential family-based substance
	use treatment facilities;
	(B) qualified residential treatment programs as
	defined in the federal Family First Prevention Services Act (Title
	VII, Div. E, Pub. L. No. 115-123);
	(C) settings specializing in providing prenatal,
	post-partum, or parenting supports for youth;
	(D) supervised settings in which a child who has
	attained 18 years of age is living independently; and
	(E) settings providing high-quality residential
	care to children and youth who have been found to be, or are at risk
	of becoming, sex trafficking victims.
	SECTION 2. Sections 264.1261(a) and (b), Family Code, as
	added by Chapter 822 (H.B. 1549), Acts of the 85th Legislature,
	Regular Session, 2017, are repealed.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.