Tex. Gov't Code § 526.0501 · Subchapter K. CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
SUBSTITUTE CARE PROVIDER OUTCOME STANDARDS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The executive commissioner, after consulting with representatives from the commission, the Department of Family and Protective Services, and the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, shall by rule adopt result-oriented standards that a provider of substitute care services for children under the care of this state must achieve.
(b) A health and human services agency that purchases substitute care services shall include the result-oriented standards as requirements in each substitute care service provider contract.
(c) A health and human services agency may provide information about a substitute care provider, including rates, contracts, outcomes, and client information, to another agency that purchases substitute care services.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 769 (H.B. 4611), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2025.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.526.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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