Bill Text: TX HB1342 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the exchange of certain information between the Department of Family and Protective Services or certain foster care services contractors and a state or local juvenile justice agency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-13 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1342 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1342-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the exchange of certain information between the Department of Family and Protective Services or certain foster care services contractors and a state or local juvenile justice agency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-13 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1342 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1342-Introduced.html
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By: Wu | H.B. No. 1342 |
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relating to the exchange of certain information between the | ||
Department of Family and Protective Services or certain foster care | ||
services contractors and a state or local juvenile justice agency. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 58.0052(b-3), Family Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b-3) At the request of a state or local juvenile justice | ||
agency, the Department of Family and Protective Services or a | ||
single source continuum contractor who contracts with the | ||
department to provide foster care services shall immediately[ |
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share with the juvenile justice agency information in the | ||
possession of the department or contractor that is necessary to | ||
improve and maintain community safety or that assists the agency in | ||
the continuation of services for or providing services to a | ||
multi-system youth who: | ||
(1) is or has been in the temporary or permanent | ||
managing conservatorship of the department; | ||
(2) is or was the subject of a family-based safety | ||
services case with the department; | ||
(3) has been reported as an alleged victim of abuse or | ||
neglect to the department; | ||
(4) is the perpetrator in a case in which the | ||
department investigation concluded that there was a reason to | ||
believe that abuse or neglect occurred; [ |
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(5) is a victim in a case in which the department | ||
investigation concluded that there was a reason to believe that | ||
abuse or neglect occurred; or | ||
(6) is a child for whom parental rights have been | ||
terminated with respect to one or both parents. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
58.0052(b-3), Family Code, applies only to a request for | ||
information made by a state or local juvenile justice agency on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. A request for information | ||
made before that date is governed by the law in effect immediately | ||
before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |