Bill Text: TX HB35 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the Department of Family and Protective Services' annual report of key performance measures and data elements for child protection; authorizing a penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-10-06 - Filed [HB35 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB35-Introduced.html
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| By: Gervin-Hawkins | H.B. No. 35 | |
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| relating to the Department of Family and Protective Services' | ||
| annual report of key performance measures and data elements for | ||
| child protection; authorizing a penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 264.017, Family Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (g) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b) The department shall provide the report required by | ||
| Subsection (a) to the legislature and shall publish the report and | ||
| make the report available electronically to the public, including | ||
| by posting the report on the department's Internet website, not | ||
| later than February 1 of each year. The report must include, with | ||
| respect to the preceding year: | ||
| (1) information on the number and disposition of | ||
| reports of child abuse and neglect received by the department; | ||
| (2) information on the number of clients for whom the | ||
| department took protective action, including investigations, | ||
| alternative responses, and court-ordered removals; | ||
| (3) information on the number of clients for whom the | ||
| department provided services in each program administered by the | ||
| child protective services division, including investigations, | ||
| alternative responses, family-based safety services, | ||
| conservatorship, post-adoption services, and transitional living | ||
| services; | ||
| (4) the number of children in this state who died as a | ||
| result of child abuse or neglect; | ||
| (5) the number of children described by Subdivision | ||
| (4) for whom the department was the children's managing conservator | ||
| at the time of death; | ||
| (6) information on the timeliness of the department's | ||
| initial contact in an investigation or alternative response; | ||
| (7) information on the response time by the department | ||
| in commencing services to families and children for whom an | ||
| allegation of child abuse or neglect has been made; | ||
| (8) information regarding child protection staffing | ||
| and caseloads by program area; | ||
| (9) information on the permanency goals in place and | ||
| achieved for children in the managing conservatorship of the | ||
| department, including information on the timeliness of achieving | ||
| the goals, the stability of the children's placement in foster | ||
| care, and the proximity of placements to the children's home | ||
| counties; | ||
| (10) the number of children who suffer from a severe | ||
| emotional disturbance and for whom the department is appointed | ||
| managing conservator, including statistics on appointments as | ||
| joint managing conservator, due to an individual voluntarily | ||
| relinquishing custody of a child solely to obtain mental health | ||
| services for the child; | ||
| (11) the number of children who are pregnant or a | ||
| parent while in the managing conservatorship of the department and | ||
| the number of the children born to a parent in the managing | ||
| conservatorship of the department who are placed in the managing | ||
| conservatorship of the department; | ||
| (12) the number of children who are missing from the | ||
| children's substitute care provider while in the managing | ||
| conservatorship of the department; [ |
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| (13) the number of children who were victims of | ||
| trafficking under Chapter 20A, Penal Code, while in the managing | ||
| conservatorship of the department; and | ||
| (14) information on the state's kinship care program. | ||
| (g) The comptroller shall assess a penalty against the | ||
| department in the amount of $1,000 for each day after February 1 the | ||
| department has not filed the report under Subsection (b). The | ||
| comptroller shall reallocate the amount assessed as a penalty under | ||
| this subsection as necessary to allow the department to use the | ||
| money to provide financial assistance to relative and other | ||
| designated caregivers under Section 264.755. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
