Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 40.0521 · Subchapter C. GENERAL FUNCTIONS OF DEPARTMENT
RULES REGARDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The executive commissioner shall adopt and the department shall implement rules that require an investigating employee to document indications of domestic violence, including elder, spousal, and child abuse. The department may develop forms to facilitate the documentation process.
(b) The executive commissioner by rule shall require that written information, printed in English and Spanish, concerning community services that are available to victims of domestic violence be distributed to those victims. The department may coordinate its efforts under this subsection with local law enforcement agencies already providing that information.
(c) The department shall include in its annual report statistical compilations of information regarding domestic abuse documented under Subsection (a).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 21.02(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 4.198, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
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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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