Bill Text: TX HB5195 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the services provided to certain children detained in a juvenile detention facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB5195 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB5195-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 5195 |
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relating to the services provided to certain children detained in a | ||
juvenile detention facility. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 54, Family Code, is amended by adding | ||
Section 54.021 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 54.021. SERVICES PROVIDED TO CHILD IN DETENTION | ||
FACILITY PENDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. (a) A child ordered to be | ||
detained in a juvenile detention facility under Section 54.02(h) | ||
shall, to the extent practicable, be provided education, | ||
programming, and other services consistent with the minimum | ||
standards adopted by the Texas Juvenile Justice Board for juvenile | ||
detention facilities under Section 221.002, Human Resources Code. | ||
(b) The facility administrator, or the administrator's | ||
designee, of a juvenile detention facility shall: | ||
(1) not later than the 21st day after the date on which | ||
a child is ordered to be detained in a juvenile detention facility | ||
under Section 54.02(h): | ||
(A) complete an initial assessment of the child | ||
to evaluate the needs of the child; and | ||
(B) develop a written plan to ensure the child | ||
has an opportunity to make progress on identified rehabilitation | ||
goals pending trial; and | ||
(2) at least once every 90 days after the date on which | ||
the facility administrator or designee develops the written plan | ||
described by Subdivision (1), prepare a status report that | ||
documents: | ||
(A) the education, programming, and other | ||
services provided to the child; | ||
(B) behavioral compliance or incidents, if any; | ||
(C) any measurable progress on identified | ||
rehabilitation goals during the preceding 90 days of detention; and | ||
(D) any comments, observations, or | ||
recommendations related to the child's educational or | ||
rehabilitative needs. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 5195 was passed by the House on April | ||
28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 10, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 5195 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
18, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |