Required Actions After Notice of Family Violence Call

Regulation of Certain Facilities, Homes, and Agencies That Provide Child-Care Services · Regulation of Certain Facilities, Homes, and Agencies

The Legislature has enacted more than one Human Resources Code section numbered 42.0449. This is version 1, in Subchapter C.

The executive commissioner shall adopt rules specifying the actions that the department, a child-placing agency, and a continuum-of-care residential operation that includes a child-placing agency shall take after receiving notice of a family violence report under Article 5.05, Code of Criminal Procedure, or Section 42.0448 to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of each child residing in the verified agency foster home.

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

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 524 (S.B. 723), Sec. 4, eff. June 16, 2007.

Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 317 (H.B. 7), Sec. 51, eff. September 1, 2017.

Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 202 (H.B. 1610), Sec. 2.18, eff. April 1, 2027.

Text of section effective on April 01, 2027

Other codes referenced

Crim. Proc. Art. 5.05