SB-11: Relating to the provision of child protective services and other health and human services by certain state agencies or under contract with a state agency, including foster care, child protective, relative and kinship caregiver support, prevention and early intervention health care, and adoption services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lois Kolkhorst
See Remarks For Effective Date on 05/31/2017
You have voted SB-11: Relating to the provision of child protective services and other health and human services by certain state agencies or under contract with a state agency, including foster care, child protective, relative and kinship caregiver support, prevention and early intervention health care, and adoption services..
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Foster care; definitions, reasonable efforts to prevent removal of child. [HB-1604]
[Children and Youth ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Foster care; reasonable efforts to prevent removal of child. Allows a local board of social services to take a child into immediate custody pursuant to an emergency removal order in cases in which the child is alleged to have been abused or neglected and allows a court to issue certain orders in such cases, without requiring that reasonable efforts be made to prevent removal of the child from his home if (i) the parental residual rights of the child's parent over a sibling were involuntarily terminated; (ii) the parent was convicted of murder or
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HB-1604: Foster care; definitions, reasonable efforts to prevent removal of child.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard P. Bell
Governor: Approved By Governor-chapter 190 (effective 7/1/17) on 02/23/2017
HB-88: Relating to an unlawful employment practice by an employer whose leave policy does not permit an employee to use leave to care for the employee's foster child.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Guillen
Signed By The Governor on 05/26/2017
You have voted HB-88: Relating to an unlawful employment practice by an employer whose leave policy does not permit an employee to use leave to care for the employee's foster child..
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Social Services, Department of; survey for children aging out of foster care. [HB-1451]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Social Security ]
Department of Social Services; survey for children aging out of foster care. Directs the Department of Social Services, in coordination with the Commission on Youth, to develop a process and standardized survey to gather feedback from children aging out of foster care.
HB-1451: Social Services, Department of; survey for children aging out of foster care.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen J. Murphy
Governor: Approved By Governor-chapter 187 (effective 7/1/17) on 02/23/2017