Bill Text: TX HB1180 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to certain information included on a searchable database on the Department of Family and Protective Services' Internet website.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 32-4)

Status: (Passed) 2015-05-28 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1180 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1180-Enrolled.html
 
 
  H.B. No. 1180
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to certain information included on a searchable database
  on the Department of Family and Protective Services' Internet
  website.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 42, Human Resources Code,
  is amended by adding Section 42.025 to read as follows:
         Sec. 42.025.  SEARCHABLE DATABASE.  (a)  The department
  shall maintain on the department's Internet website a searchable
  database that includes the name, the address, and any
  identification number, as applicable, of each family home
  registered or listed under this chapter that previously had a
  registration or listing involuntarily suspended or revoked under
  this chapter with a permanent notation indicating the involuntary
  suspension or revocation and the year in which the suspension or
  revocation took effect or was final under this chapter.
         (b)  The executive commissioner may adopt rules as necessary
  to implement this section.
         SECTION 2.  Not later than December 31, 2015, the Department
  of Family and Protective Services shall include in a searchable
  database the information required by Section 42.025, Human
  Resources Code, as added by this Act, and the involuntary
  suspension and revocation information on a registered or listed
  family home for at least the five years preceding the date the
  information is added to the database.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1180 was passed by the House on April
  16, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 145, Nays 1, 2 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 1180 on May 18, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 131, Nays 0,
  1 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1180 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 15, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
  0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor       
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