Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 242.051 · Subchapter B. SECURE FACILITIES; SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION OF INSTITUTIONS; CHARGE OF CHILDREN.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department shall:
(1) administer the training, diagnostic treatment, and supervisory facilities and services of the state for children committed to the department; and
(2) manage and direct all institutions and training school facilities under the authority of the department.
(b) The department shall have general charge of and be responsible for the welfare, custody, and rehabilitation of the children in a school, facility, or program operated or funded by the department. The department shall seek to establish relationships and to organize a way of life that will meet the spiritual, moral, physical, emotional, intellectual, and social needs of the children under the department's care as those needs would be met in an adequate home.
(c) The department shall see that the buildings and premises are kept in good sanitary condition.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Transferred, redesignated and amended from Human Resources Code, Subchapter C, Chapter 61 by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 85 (S.B. 653), Sec. 1.007, eff. September 1, 2011.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HR/htm/HR.242.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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