Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 137.255 · Subchapter F. TEXAS HOME VISITING PROGRAM
OUTCOMES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The commission shall ensure that a home visiting program achieves favorable outcomes in at least two of the following areas:
(1) improved maternal or child health outcomes;
(2) improved cognitive development of children;
(3) increased school readiness of children;
(4) reduced child abuse, neglect, and injury;
(5) improved child safety;
(6) improved social-emotional development of children;
(7) improved parenting skills, including nurturing and bonding;
(8) improved family economic self-sufficiency;
(9) reduced parental involvement with the criminal justice system; and
(10) increased father involvement and support.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 421 (S.B. 426), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.
Transferred and redesignated from Government Code, Subchapter X, Chapter 531 by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1033 (S.B. 24), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HR/htm/HR.137.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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