Bill Text: TX SB534 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to providing stable placement for certain children in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB534 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB534-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to providing stable placement for certain children in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB534 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB534-Introduced.html
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| By: West | S.B. No. 534 | |
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| relating to requiring permanency planning meetings for certain | ||
| children in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and | ||
| Protective Services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 263, Family Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 263. REVIEW OF PLACEMENT OF CHILDREN UNDER CARE OF | ||
| DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE [ |
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| SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 263, Family Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 263.009 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 263.009. PERMANENCY PLANNING MEETINGS. (a) Except as | ||
| provided by Subsection (b), the department shall hold a permanency | ||
| planning meeting for each child for whom the department is | ||
| appointed temporary managing conservator: | ||
| (1) not later than the 45th day after the date the | ||
| department is named temporary managing conservator of the child; | ||
| (2) not later than five months after the date the | ||
| department is named temporary managing conservator of the child; | ||
| and | ||
| (3) not later than nine months after the date the | ||
| department is named temporary managing conservator of the child. | ||
| (b) The department is not required to hold a permanency | ||
| planning meeting for a child if the child has received a permanent | ||
| placement or the department has selected a permanent placement for | ||
| the child. | ||
| (c) The department shall give notice of each permanency | ||
| planning meeting to: | ||
| (1) the child, if the child is at least seven years of | ||
| age; | ||
| (2) the child's attorney ad litem; | ||
| (3) the child's guardian ad litem; | ||
| (4) any court-appointed volunteer advocate for the | ||
| child; | ||
| (5) the child's substitute care provider and any | ||
| child-placing agency involved with the child; | ||
| (6) each of the child's parents and the parents' | ||
| attorney, unless: | ||
| (A) the parent cannot be located; | ||
| (B) the parent has executed an affidavit of | ||
| relinquishment of parental rights; or | ||
| (C) the parent's parental rights have been | ||
| terminated; and | ||
| (7) any other person the department determines should | ||
| attend the permanency planning meeting. | ||
| (d) The department shall give the notice required by | ||
| Subsection (c) by electronic mail if possible. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 263.009, Family Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies only to a child placed in the temporary managing | ||
| conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services | ||
| on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
