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Texas Human Resources Code § 48.102

Reports of Investigations in Schools

Investigations and Protective Services for Elderly Persons and Persons with Disabilities · Confidentiality

(a) The department shall send a written report of the department's investigation of alleged abuse, neglect, or exploitation of an adult with a disability at a school, as appropriate, to the Texas Education Agency, the agency responsible for teacher certification, the local school board or the school's governing body, and the school principal or director, unless the principal or director is alleged to have committed the abuse, neglect, or exploitation. The entity to which the report is sent shall take appropriate action.

(b) On request, the department shall provide a copy of the report of the investigation to the person who is alleged to have suffered the abuse, neglect, or exploitation, to the legal guardian of that person, and to the person alleged to have committed the abuse, neglect, or exploitation.

(c) The report of the investigation shall be edited to protect the identity of the person who made the report under Section 48.051.

(d) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to implement this section.

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

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 907, Sec. 12, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.

Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 4.262, eff. April 2, 2015.

This section refers to

§ 48.051