Bill Text: TX HB3558 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an innovation grant program for community faith-based programs that collaborate with the Department of Family and Protective Services to improve foster care.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-30 - Referred to Human Services [HB3558 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3558-Introduced.html
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| By: Swanson | H.B. No. 3558 | |
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| relating to an innovation grant program for community faith-based | ||
| programs that collaborate with the Department of Family and | ||
| Protective Services to improve foster care. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 264, Family Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 264.2042 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 264.2042. GRANTS FOR FAITH-BASED COMMUNITY | ||
| COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMS. (a) Subject to the availability of funds, | ||
| the department shall establish and administer an innovation grant | ||
| program to award grants to support faith-based community programs | ||
| that collaborate with the department and the commission to improve | ||
| foster care and the placement of children in foster care. | ||
| (b) A faith-based community program is eligible for a grant | ||
| under this section if: | ||
| (1) the effectiveness of the program is supported by | ||
| empirical evidence; and | ||
| (2) the program has demonstrated the ability to build | ||
| connections between faith-based, secular, and government | ||
| stakeholders. | ||
| (c) The regional director for the department in the region | ||
| where a grant recipient program is located, or the regional | ||
| director's designee, shall serve as the liaison between the | ||
| department and the program for collaborative purposes. For a | ||
| program that operates in a larger region, the department may | ||
| designate a liaison in each county where the program is operating. | ||
| The department or the commission may not direct or manage the | ||
| operation of the program. | ||
| (d) The initial duration of a grant under this section is | ||
| two years. The department may renew a grant awarded to a program | ||
| under this section if the department determines that the program is | ||
| successful. | ||
| (e) The department may not award to a program grants under | ||
| this section totaling more than $300,000. | ||
| (f) The department shall adopt rules to implement the grant | ||
| program created under this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the Department of Family and Protective Services shall | ||
| adopt rules for the implementation and administration of the | ||
| innovation grant program established under Section 264.2042, | ||
| Family Code, as added by this Act, and begin to award grants under | ||
| the program. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
