Bill Text: TX HB1155 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to monetary assistance provided by the Department of Family and Protective Services to certain parents.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB1155 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1155-Introduced.html
| 89R3743 AMF-F | ||
| By: Hull | H.B. No. 1155 | |
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| relating to monetary assistance provided by the Department of | ||
| Family and Protective Services to certain parents. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 264, Family Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 264.209 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 264.209. MONITORED RETURN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. (a) If | ||
| a court has rendered an order under Section 263.403 providing for | ||
| the monitored return of a child to a parent, the department shall | ||
| provide monetary assistance under this section for the duration of | ||
| the monitoring period to a parent who: | ||
| (1) has a family income that is less than or equal to | ||
| 300 percent of the federal poverty level; and | ||
| (2) demonstrates to the department that economic | ||
| factors, including unemployment or inability to afford housing, | ||
| transportation, utilities, food, medical care, mental health care, | ||
| or child care are the main barrier to reunification. | ||
| (b) The department shall disburse monetary assistance | ||
| provided to a parent under Subsection (a) in the same manner as the | ||
| department disburses payments to a foster parent, including making | ||
| a rate increase effective on the same date the department | ||
| implements a rate increase for the minimum daily foster care | ||
| reimbursement rate. | ||
| (c) The department, at its discretion and for good cause, | ||
| may extend the monetary assistance payments for an additional six | ||
| months after the date the case is dismissed to support family | ||
| stability after reunification. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to an | ||
| order rendered under Section 263.403, Family Code, regardless of | ||
| whether the order was rendered before, on, or after the effective | ||
| date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
