Tex. Fam. Code § 261.410 · Subchapter E. INVESTIGATIONS OF ABUSE, NEGLECT, OR EXPLOITATION IN CERTAIN FACILITIES
REPORT OF ABUSE BY OTHER CHILDREN.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section:
(1) "Physical abuse" means:
(A) physical injury that results in substantial harm to the child requiring emergency medical treatment and excluding an accident or reasonable discipline by a parent, guardian, or managing or possessory conservator that does not expose the child to a substantial risk of harm; or
(B) failure to make a reasonable effort to prevent an action by another person that results in physical injury that results in substantial harm to the child.
(2) "Sexual abuse" means:
(A) sexual conduct harmful to a child's mental, emotional, or physical welfare; or
(B) failure to make a reasonable effort to prevent sexual conduct harmful to a child.
(b) An agency that operates, licenses, certifies, or registers a facility shall require a residential child-care facility to report each incident of physical or sexual abuse committed by a child against another child.
(c) Using information received under Subsection (b), the agency that operates, licenses, certifies, or registers a facility shall, subject to the availability of funds, compile a report that includes information:
(1) regarding the number of cases of physical and sexual abuse committed by a child against another child;
(2) identifying the residential child-care facility;
(3) regarding the date each allegation of abuse was made;
(4) regarding the date each investigation was started and concluded;
(5) regarding the findings and results of each investigation; and
(6) regarding the number of children involved in each incident investigated.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 268 (S.B. 6), Sec. 1.31, eff. September 1, 2005.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.261.htm
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