Bill Text: TX HB2655 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring the Department of Family and Protective Services to study the effectiveness of the relative and other designated caregiver placement program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB2655 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2655-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2655 | ||
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| relating to requiring the Department of Family and Protective | ||
| Services to study the effectiveness of the relative and other | ||
| designated caregiver placement program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 264, Family Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 264.761 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 264.761. STUDY OF PROGRAM. (a) The department shall | ||
| study the effectiveness of the relative and other designated | ||
| caregiver placement program created by this subchapter and make | ||
| recommendations to the legislature for improving the program. The | ||
| recommended improvements must be designed to minimize the number of | ||
| placements for each child, maximize efficiency in the distribution | ||
| of any monetary or other assistance for which caregivers qualify, | ||
| facilitate a safe and permanent exit from the managing | ||
| conservatorship of the department in as timely a fashion as | ||
| possible, and assist caregivers in obtaining the verification | ||
| necessary to qualify for foster care maintenance reimbursement. | ||
| The recommendations may include increases in the amount of | ||
| assistance and the identification of automated or other processes | ||
| designed to speed the payment of assistance. | ||
| (b) The department shall report its findings and | ||
| recommendations to the legislature not later than January 1, 2017. | ||
| (c) This section expires September 1, 2017. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2655 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
| 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2655 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
