Tex. Gov't Code § 2306.1101 · Subchapter OO. HOMELESS YOUTH
DEFINITION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this subchapter, "homeless youth" means a person who is younger than 19 years of age, including a migratory child, as defined by Section 1309, Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. Section 6399), who:
(1) lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, including a person who is:
(A) living in an emergency shelter;
(B) abandoned in a hospital; or
(C) awaiting foster care placement;
(2) has a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for humans; or
(3) is living in a car, park, other public space, abandoned building, substandard housing, bus or train station, or similar setting.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 691 (H.B. 679), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.2306.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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