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Texas Human Resources Code § 40.043

Child Safety and Runaway Prevention Procedures

Department of Family and Protective Services · Administrative Provisions

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.

Official text of the Texas Human Resources Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 394 (S.B. 781), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.

Other codes referenced

Fam. § 264.001Fam. § 264.125