Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 40.043 · Subchapter B. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
CHILD SAFETY AND RUNAWAY PREVENTION PROCEDURES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The commissioner by rule shall establish the department's strategy to:
(1) develop trauma-informed protocols for reducing the number of incidents in which a child in the conservatorship of the department runs away from a residential treatment center; and
(2) balance measures aimed at protecting child safety with federal and state requirements related to normalcy and decision making under the reasonable and prudent parent standard prescribed by 42 U.S.C. Section 675 and Sections 264.001 and 264.125, Family Code.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 394 (S.B. 781), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.
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