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TX Hum Res Code § 43.0105 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle D - Department of Family and Protective Services; Child Welfare and Protective Services|Chapter 43 - Regulation of Child-Care and Child-Placing Agency Administrators|Section 43.0105. Revocation of Probation

Sec. 43.0105.  REVOCATION OF PROBATION.  The department may revoke the probation of a license holder if the license holder violates a term of the conditions of probation.|Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1022, Sec. 50, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.Amended by: Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 268 (S.B. 6), Sec. 1.120, eff. September 1, 2005.|
TX Hum Res Code § 43.0106 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle D - Department of Family and Protective Services; Child Welfare and Protective Services|Chapter 43 - Regulation of Child-Care and Child-Placing Agency Administrators|Section 43.0106. Administrative Hearing

Sec. 43.0106.  ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING.  (a)  If the department denies a license or proposes to suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew a person's license, the person is entitled to a hearing conducted by the State Office of Administrative Hearings.  Proceedings for a disciplinary action are governed by the administrative procedure law, Chapter 2001, Government Code.  Rules of practice adopted by the executive commissioner under Section 2001.004, Government Code, applicable to the proceedings for a disciplinary action may not conflict with rules adopted by the State Office of Administrative Hearings.(b)  A person may not continue to operate as a licensed child-care administrator or child-placing agency administrator during the appeal process if the department determines that the person is an immediate threat to the health or safety of a child.(c)  The department must notify the person, and if applicable, the governing body of the facility that employs the person, of the department's determination under Subsection (b).|Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1022, Sec. 50, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.Amended by: Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 268 (S.B. 6), Sec. 1.121, eff. September 1, 2005.|
TX Hum Res Code § 43.011 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle D - Department of Family and Protective Services; Child Welfare and Protective Services|Chapter 43 - Regulation of Child-Care and Child-Placing Agency Administrators|Section 43.011. Appeals

Sec. 43.011.  APPEALS.  (a)  A person whose license application is denied or whose license is revoked is entitled to written notice of the reasons and may request that the department provide a hearing.(b)  The hearing shall be held within 30 days after the date the department receives the request.(c)  If the hearing results in the department upholding the license denial or revocation, the person may challenge the department's decision by filing suit in a district court in the county where the person resides within 30 days after the date the person receives notice of the department's final decision.(d)  The trial shall be de novo.|Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 2369, ch. 842, art. 1, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1979.|
TX Hum Res Code § 43.012 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle D - Department of Family and Protective Services; Child Welfare and Protective Services|Chapter 43 - Regulation of Child-Care and Child-Placing Agency Administrators|Section 43.012. Penalty

Sec. 43.012.  PENALTY.  A person who serves as a child-care or child-placing agency administrator without the license required by this chapter commits a Class C misdemeanor.|Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 2369, ch. 842, art. 1, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1979.  Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1063, Sec. 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.Amended by: Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 268 (S.B. 6), Sec. 1.122, eff. September 1, 2005.|
TX Hum Res Code § 45.001 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle D - Department of Family and Protective Services; Child Welfare and Protective Services|Chapter 45 - Protection of Rights of Conscience for Child Welfare Services Providers|Section 45.001. Legislative Intent

Sec. 45.001.  LEGISLATIVE INTENT.  It is the intent of the legislature to maintain a diverse network of service providers that offer a range of foster capacity options and that accommodate children from various cultural backgrounds.  To that end, the legislature expects reasonable accommodations to be made by the state to allow people of diverse backgrounds and beliefs to be a part of meeting the needs of children in the child welfare system.  Decisions regarding the placement of children shall continue to be made in the best interest of the child, including which person is best able to provide for the child's physical, psychological, and emotional needs and development.|Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1152 (H.B. 3859), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.|
TX Hum Res Code § 45.002 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle D - Department of Family and Protective Services; Child Welfare and Protective Services|Chapter 45 - Protection of Rights of Conscience for Child Welfare Services Providers|Section 45.002. Definitions

Sec. 45.002.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:(1)  "Adverse action" means any action that directly or indirectly adversely affects the person against whom the adverse action is taken, places the person in a worse position than the person was in before the adverse action was taken, or is likely to deter a reasonable person from acting or refusing to act. An adverse action includes:(A)  denying an application for, refusing to renew, or canceling funding;(B)  declining to enter into, refusing to renew, or canceling a contract;(C)  declining to issue, refusing to renew, or canceling a license;(D)  terminating, suspending, demoting, or reassigning a person; and(E)  limiting the ability of a person to engage in child welfare services.(2)  "Catchment area" means a geographic service area for providing child protective services or child welfare services.(3)  "Child welfare services" means social services provided to or on behalf of children, including:(A)  assisting abused or neglected children;(B)  counseling children or parents; (C)  promoting foster parenting; (D)  providing foster homes, general residential operations, residential care, adoptive homes, group homes, or temporary group shelters for children;(E)  recruiting foster parents; (F)  placing children in foster homes; (G)  licensing foster homes; (H)  promoting adoption or recruiting adoptive parents;(I)  assisting adoptions or supporting adoptive families;(J)  performing or assisting home studies; (K)  assisting kinship guardianships or kinship caregivers; (L)  providing family preservation services; (M)  providing family support services; (N)  providing temporary family reunification services;(O)  placing children in adoptive homes; and(P)  serving as a foster parent.(4)  "Child welfare services provider" means a person, other than a governmental entity, that provides, seeks to provide, or applies for or receives a contract, subcontract, grant, subgrant, or cooperative agreement to provide child welfare services.  The person is not required to be engaged exclusively in child welfare services to be a child welfare services provider.(5)  "Governmental entity" means:(A)  this state or a municipality or other political subdivision of this state;(B)  any agency of this state or of a municipality or other political subdivision of this state, including a department, bureau, board, commission, office, agency, council, and public institution of higher education; or(C)  a single source continuum contractor in this state providing services identified under Section 264.153, Family Code.|Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1152 (H.B. 3859), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.Amended by: Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 915 (H.B. 3607), Sec. 11.001, eff. September 1, 2021.|
TX Hum Res Code § 45.003 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle D - Department of Family and Protective Services; Child Welfare and Protective Services|Chapter 45 - Protection of Rights of Conscience for Child Welfare Services Providers|Section 45.003. Applicability

Sec. 45.003.  APPLICABILITY.  (a)  This chapter applies to any ordinance, rule, order, decision, practice, or other exercise of governmental authority.(b)  This chapter applies to an act of a governmental entity, in the exercise of governmental authority, granting or refusing to grant a government benefit to a child welfare services provider.|Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1152 (H.B. 3859), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.|
TX Hum Res Code § 45.004 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle D - Department of Family and Protective Services; Child Welfare and Protective Services|Chapter 45 - Protection of Rights of Conscience for Child Welfare Services Providers|Section 45.004. Child Welfare Services Providers Protected

Sec. 45.004.  CHILD WELFARE SERVICES PROVIDERS PROTECTED.  A governmental entity or any person that contracts with this state or operates under governmental authority to refer or place children for child welfare services may not discriminate or take any adverse action against a child welfare services provider on the basis, wholly or partly, that the provider:(1)  has declined or will decline to provide, facilitate, or refer a person for child welfare services that conflict with, or under circumstances that conflict with, the provider's sincerely held religious beliefs;(2)  provides or intends to provide children under the control, care, guardianship, or direction of the provider with a religious education, including through placing the children in a private or parochial school or otherwise providing a religious education in accordance with the laws of this state;(3)  has declined or will decline to provide, facilitate, or refer a person for abortions, contraceptives, or drugs, devices, or services that are potentially abortion-inducing; or(4)  refuses to enter into a contract that is inconsistent with or would in any way interfere with or force a provider to surrender the rights created by this chapter.|Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1152 (H.B. 3859), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.|
TX Hum Res Code § 45.005 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle D - Department of Family and Protective Services; Child Welfare and Protective Services|Chapter 45 - Protection of Rights of Conscience for Child Welfare Services Providers|Section 45.005. Secondary Services Providers and Referrals

Sec. 45.005.  SECONDARY SERVICES PROVIDERS AND REFERRALS.  (a)  A child welfare services provider may not be required to provide any service that conflicts with the provider's sincerely held religious beliefs.(b)  A governmental entity or any person that operates under governmental authority to refer or place children for child welfare services shall:(1)  ensure that a secondary child welfare services provider is available in that catchment area to provide a service described by Subsection (a) to a child; or(2)  if there is an insufficient number of secondary services providers willing or available in that catchment area to provide that service, provide for one or more secondary services providers in a nearby catchment area.(c)  A child welfare services provider who declines to provide a child welfare service as authorized by this section shall:(1)  provide to the person seeking the service written information directing the person to:(A)  the web page on the department's Internet website that includes a list of other licensed child welfare services providers; or(B)  other information sources that identify other licensed child welfare services providers who provide the service being denied;(2)  refer the applicant to another licensed child welfare services provider who provides the service being denied; or (3)  refer the applicant to the department or to a single source continuum contractor to identify and locate a licensed child welfare services provider who provides the service being denied.|Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1152 (H.B. 3859), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.|
TX Hum Res Code § 45.006 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle D - Department of Family and Protective Services; Child Welfare and Protective Services|Chapter 45 - Protection of Rights of Conscience for Child Welfare Services Providers|Section 45.006. Private Right of Action

Sec. 45.006.  PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION.  A child welfare services provider may assert an actual or threatened violation of this chapter as a claim or defense in a judicial or administrative proceeding and obtain the relief specified in Section 45.007.|Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1152 (H.B. 3859), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.|
TX Hum Res Code § 45.007 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle D - Department of Family and Protective Services; Child Welfare and Protective Services|Chapter 45 - Protection of Rights of Conscience for Child Welfare Services Providers|Section 45.007. Remedies

Sec. 45.007.  REMEDIES.  (a)  A child welfare services provider who successfully asserts a claim or defense under this chapter is entitled to recover:(1)  declaratory relief under Chapter 37, Civil Practice and Remedies Code; or(2)  injunctive relief to prevent the threatened or continued adverse action.(b)  A person may not bring an action for declaratory or injunctive relief against an individual, other than an action brought against an individual acting in the individual's official capacity.|Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1152 (H.B. 3859), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.|
TX Hum Res Code § 45.008 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle D - Department of Family and Protective Services; Child Welfare and Protective Services|Chapter 45 - Protection of Rights of Conscience for Child Welfare Services Providers|Section 45.008. Immunity Waived

Sec. 45.008.  IMMUNITY WAIVED.  (a)  Sovereign and governmental immunity to suit are waived.(b)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), this chapter does not waive or abolish sovereign immunity to suit under the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.|Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1152 (H.B. 3859), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.|
TX Hum Res Code § 45.009 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle D - Department of Family and Protective Services; Child Welfare and Protective Services|Chapter 45 - Protection of Rights of Conscience for Child Welfare Services Providers|Section 45.009. Effect on Rights; Construction of Law

Sec. 45.009.  EFFECT ON RIGHTS; CONSTRUCTION OF LAW.  (a)  This chapter may not be construed to authorize a governmental entity to burden a person's free exercise of religion.(b)  The protections of religious freedom afforded by this chapter are in addition to the protections provided under federal or state law and the constitutions of this state and the United States.(c)  This chapter may not be construed to supersede any law of this state that is equally as protective of religious beliefs as, or more protective of religious beliefs than, this chapter.(d)  This chapter may not be considered to narrow the meaning or application of any other law protecting religious beliefs.(e)  This chapter may not be construed to prevent law enforcement officers from exercising duties imposed on the officers under the Family Code and the Penal Code.(f)  This chapter may not be construed to allow a child welfare services provider to decline to provide, facilitate, or refer a person for child welfare services on the basis of that person's race, ethnicity, or national origin.(g)  This chapter may not be construed to allow a child welfare services provider to deprive a minor of the rights, including the right to medical care, provided by Chapters 32, 263, and 266, Family Code.(h)  This chapter may not be construed to prohibit the department from:(1)  exercising its duty as the child's managing conservator to make decisions in the child's best interest; or(2)  obtaining necessary child welfare services from an alternate child welfare services provider.|Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1152 (H.B. 3859), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.|
TX Hum Res Code § 45.010 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle D - Department of Family and Protective Services; Child Welfare and Protective Services|Chapter 45 - Protection of Rights of Conscience for Child Welfare Services Providers|Section 45.010. Interpretation

Sec. 45.010.  INTERPRETATION.  This chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate its remedial and deterrent purposes.|Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1152 (H.B. 3859), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.|
TX Hum Res Code § 51.001 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle E - Services for Families|Chapter 51 - Family Violence Centers|Section 51.001. Purpose

Sec. 51.001.  PURPOSE.  The purpose of this chapter is to promote development of and access to locally based and supported nonprofit services for victims of family violence throughout the state.|Added by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 3313, ch. 867, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 636, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989;  Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 6, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.|
TX Hum Res Code § 51.002 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle E - Services for Families|Chapter 51 - Family Violence Centers|Section 51.002. Definitions

Sec. 51.002.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:(1)  "Family" has the meaning assigned by Section 71.003, Family Code.(2)  "Family violence" means an act by a member of a family or household against another member of the family or household that:(A)  is intended to result in physical harm, bodily injury, or assault or that is a threat that reasonably places the member in fear of imminent physical harm, bodily injury, or assault, but does not include defensive measures to protect oneself;  or(B)  is intended to inflict emotional harm, including an act of emotional abuse.(3)  "Family violence center" includes a family violence shelter center and a family violence nonresidential center.(4)  "Family violence nonresidential center" means a program that:(A)  is operated by a public or private nonprofit organization;  and(B)  provides comprehensive nonresidential services to victims of family violence.(5)  "Family violence shelter center" means a program that:(A)  is operated by a public or private nonprofit organization;  and(B)  provides comprehensive residential and nonresidential services to victims of family violence.(6)  "Family violence special project" means a project that:(A)  is operated by a public or private nonprofit organization;  and(B)  provides at least one specialized family violence service.(7)  "Household" has the meaning assigned by Section 71.005, Family Code.(8)  "Member of a household" has the meaning assigned by Section 71.006, Family Code.(9)  "Victim of family violence" means:(A)  an adult member of a family or household who is subjected to an act of family violence;  or(B)  a member of the household of the adult described by Paragraph (A), other than the member of the household who commits the act of family violence, including an act of emotional abuse.|Added by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 3313, ch. 867, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 636, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1989;  Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 561, Sec. 36, eff. Aug. 26, 1991;  Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 5.95(27), eff. Sept. 1, 1995;  Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 6, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.|
TX Hum Res Code § 51.0021 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle E - Services for Families|Chapter 51 - Family Violence Centers|Section 51.0021. Family Violence Services Plan

Sec. 51.0021.  FAMILY VIOLENCE SERVICES PLAN.  (a)  The commission shall develop and maintain a plan for delivering family violence services in this state.(b)  In developing the plan under this section, the commission shall consider the geographic distribution of services and the need for services, including the need for increasing services for underserved populations.|Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 6, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 4.290, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Hum Res Code § 51.003 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Human Resources Code|Title 2 - Human Services and Protective Services in General|Subtitle E - Services for Families|Chapter 51 - Family Violence Centers|Section 51.003. Contracts

Sec. 51.003.  CONTRACTS.  (a)  The commission shall contract for services with family violence centers with consideration given to the plan for family violence services under Section 51.0021. These contracts are to expand existing family violence center services and may not result in reducing financial support a family violence center receives from another source.  The contracts shall not provide for more than 75 percent of the cost of the family violence center program.  The commission shall develop a declining scale of state financial support for family violence centers, declining over a six-year period from the initiation of each individual contract, with no more than 50 percent of a family violence center program's funding to be provided by the state after the sixth year.  The balance each year shall be provided from other sources.  The executive commissioner may adopt rules which will allow exceptions to the above scale in individual instances when a family violence center shall demonstrate that exigent circumstances require such a waiver.(b)  The commission may contract with family violence special projects for services.  The commission shall consider the plan for family violence services under Section 51.0021 in contracting with family violence special projects.(c)  The commission shall contract statewide for activities that support and advance the work of family violence centers.  Activities contracted for under this subsection must include the provision of technical assistance and training for family violence centers.  The commission may contract for the provision of public education, consultation to the commission, research, evaluation, and liaison and training for other professionals who work with victims of family violence, including professionals in the criminal justice, medical, and social services fields, and for community or civic groups.(d)  Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1131 , Sec. 3, eff. June 19, 2015.|Added by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 3313, ch. 867, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 264, Sec. 19, eff. Aug. 26, 1985;  Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 636, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1989;  Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 6, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 4.291, eff. April 2, 2015.Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1131 (S.B. 59), Sec. 3, eff. June 19, 2015.|