Bill Text: TX HB3338 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of identification documentation for foster care youth.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective immediately [HB3338 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3338-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of identification documentation for foster care youth.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective immediately [HB3338 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3338-Introduced.html
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By: White | H.B. No. 3338 |
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relating to the issuance of identification documentation for foster | ||
care youth. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 264, Family Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 264.1211 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 264.1211. RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS FOR CHILDREN AGING OUT | ||
OF FOSTER CARE. The department in cooperation with volunteer | ||
advocates from a charitable organization described by Subchapter C, | ||
Chapter 107, and the Department of Public Safety shall develop | ||
procedures to ensure that a foster child obtains a driver's license | ||
or personal identification card before the child leaves the | ||
conservatorship of the department. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2017. |