Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 40.0025 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
AGENCY FUNCTIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section, "function" includes a power, duty, program, or activity and an administrative support services function associated with the power, duty, program, or activity, unless consolidated under former Section 531.02012, Government Code.
(b) In accordance with former Subchapter A-1, Chapter 531, Government Code, and notwithstanding any other law, the department performs only functions, including the statewide intake of reports and other information, related to the following services:
(1) child protective services, including services that are required by federal law to be provided by this state's child welfare agency;
(2) adult protective services, other than investigations of the alleged abuse, neglect, or exploitation of an elderly person or person with a disability:
(A) in a facility operated, or in a facility or by a person licensed, certified, or registered, by a state agency; or
(B) by a provider that has contracted to provide home and community-based services; and
(3) family support services functions, including:
(A) family support services as defined under Section 137.002; and
(B) programs that:
(i) provide parent education;
(ii) promote healthier parent-child relationships; or
(iii) prevent family violence.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 837 (S.B. 200), Sec. 1.19, eff. September 1, 2017.
Amended by:
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 769 (H.B. 4611), Sec. 2.91, eff. April 1, 2025.
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1033 (S.B. 24), Sec. 13, eff. September 1, 2023.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HR/htm/HR.40.htm
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Human Resources Code
- Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 40.002DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES; GENERAL DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT.Printed as Section 40.0025
- Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 40.0026REFERENCES IN LAW MEANING DEPARTMENT.Printed as Section 40.0025(b)
- Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 40.0027REFERENCES IN LAW MEANING COMMISSIONER OR DESIGNEE.Printed as Section 40.0025(b)
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