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1 | Bill Number | Member Name | Companion | Committee | Bill Summary | Senat Committee | Senate Floor | House Committee | House Floor | Governor's Desk | Passed | |||||||||||||||
2 | SB 72 | Jane Nelson | HB 1232/Guillen | State Affairs | Establishes a human trafficking coordinating council of various state agencies to create a 5-year strategic plan to prevent human trafficking in Texas. | Voted out of committee 3/7/19 | Received in the House | Voted out of committee | Passed | |||||||||||||||||
3 | SB 98 | Jose Menendez | Health & Human Services | Allows a relative to receive foster care payments and permanency care assistance payments without being a verified foster parent. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | SB 99 | Jose Menendez | Health & Human Services | Allows an aunt, uncle, sister or brother taking care of a child to receive TANF funds as opposed to only grandparents. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | SB 355 | Royce West | HB 4263/Klick | Health & Human Services | Requires DFPS to create a strategic plan on implementing prevention services allowed under Families First and to conduct a capacity assessment of those services in Texas. | Voted out of committee 3/12/19 | Voted out of Senate | Left pending in committee | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | SB 424 | Royce West | HB 811/White | Education | Requires school districts to consider when determining punishment if a child is in foster care and if the student is homeless. | Voted out of committee 4/3/19 | Placed on intent calendar | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | SB 480 | Kirk Watson | Health & Human Services | Requires DFPS to provide PAL servics and transitional living services including a transitional living plan to children age 14 and older as soon as possible and requies an independent living skills assessment within 45 days after a child turns 14. Requires DFPS and providers to have a plan to ensure youth have a placement before they turn 18 by 6 months before a child turns 18 if in a residential setting, and 90 days if in a foster home. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | SB 481 | Kirk Watson | Health & Human Services | Allows a foster and/or homeless youth to receive their birth certificate and drivers license without a fee and allows the youth to not have to renew every time they have a new address but instead provide the addresss of the CPS regional office or shelter near them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | SB 568 | Joan Huffman | Health & Human Services | Adds monetary penalties to foster care and daycare providers in the amount of $1,000 for an incident of abuse, neglect, or exploitation, $500 for failture to report an incident to a parent or guardian, $50 for failure to report to a parent lack of liability insurance, and $50 for failure to report abuse, neglect, exploitation and failure of safe sleeping to a parent. | Voted out of committee 3/12/19 | Passed Senate | Voted out of committee | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | SB 705 | Kirk Watson | Health & Human Services | Requires more investigation information for RCCL and daycares to be public information to provide consumer choice such as previous investigation results and training of the staff. | Voted out of committee | Voted out of Senate | Referred to House Human Services | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | SB 781 | Lois Kolkhorst | HB 1698 | Health & Human Services | Creates additional procedures to become licensed as an RTC and additional regulatory measures such as a "three strikes you're out" regulatory framework for RTCs. | Voted out of committee | Voted out of Senate | Left pending in committee | ||||||||||||||||||
12 | SB 951 | Kirk Watson | HB 2926/Hinojosa | Health & Human Services | Establishes a Families First task force to present recommendations on implementation of the bill by January 1, 2021. | |||||||||||||||||||||
13 | SB 1001 | Kirk Watson | HB 692/White | Education | Disallows a homeless student from receiving out-of-school suspension. | Voted out of committee | ||||||||||||||||||||
14 | SB 1095 | Charles Perry | HB 3746/Krause | Health & Human Services | Allows a prospective or current foster parent to examine a child's record of their health history if the child is a "medically fragile" child. | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | SB 1101 | Lois Kolkhorst | Health & Human Services | Changes that the ombudsman is appointed by the HHSC EC instead of the Governor. Adds that HHSC and DFPS must provide the ombudsman reasoning as to why they adopted or rejected an ombudsman's recommendation. | Voted out of committee | Voted out of Senate | Scheduled for hearing 5/14/19 | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | SB 1279 | Kirk Watson | Health & Human Services | Requires all PEI programs to be evidence-based, promising practices, or evidence-informed and listed in a nationally recognized clearinghouse. Further defines in statute the definitions of each of these including adding evaluation measures, community ties, etc. Adds that outcomes for PEI programs should include an increase in protective factors and improved maternal and child health. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | SB 1288 | Kirk Watson | Health & Human Services | Requires DFPS and HHSC to report on the number of pregnant and parent youth both in care and in the STAR Health program. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | SB 1289 | Kirk Watson | Health & Human Services | Adds to the DFPS foster care capacity needs assessment the number of QRTPs, substance-use treatment facilities, pregnant & parenting supports for youth, sex trafficking victim residential services, and transitional living services. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | SB 1290 | Kirk Watson | Health & Human Services | Ensure DFPS makes sure pregnant/parenting youth know how to keep their own children safe, healthy, and developing appropriately. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | SB 1291 | Kirk Watson | Health & Human Services | Requires DFPS to establish a training program for foster and kinship parents on how to communicate with children on self-image, goal setting, planning and decision-making, etc. Requires training for caseworkers on providing information on reproductive health to youth. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | sb1333 | Royce West | Health & Human Services | Requires DFPS through rule-making to define "trauma" and "trauma-informed care." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | SB 1345 | Kirk Watson | HB 1230/Hinojosa | Health & Human Services | Establishes administrative penalties for foster care residential providers and progressive sanctions not to exceed $500 for the first violation and $2,000 for progressive violations. | |||||||||||||||||||||
23 | SB 1347 | Kirk Watson | HB 3370/Deshotel | Health & Human Services | Requires DFPS to notify a child in care of the outcome of an inquiry of the ombudsman iff it is in the best interests of the child. Requires DFPS to provide counseling if the child needs it from the report. Adds to the bill of rights for children in care they are entitled to receive access to the ombudsman report. Requires the foster care ombudsman to provide a monthly report on investigations and reports and requires DFPS and HHSC to provide the ombudsman written notice if they adopted or rejected the ombudsman's recommended corrective action. | |||||||||||||||||||||
24 | SB 1353 | Beverly Powell | HB 822/Parker | Health & Human Services | Requires multiple state agencies including HHSC, DSHS, DFPS, and TEA to analyze adverse childhood experiences and identify best practices to prevent adverse childhood experiences through a 5-year strategic plan for the state. | |||||||||||||||||||||
25 | SB 1357 | Kelly Hancock | HB 1702/Howard | Health & Human Services | Requires the foster care liason at a college to obtain names annually of students at the institution who were in foster care and requires the college or university to publically provide contact information for the liason and information on supports for former foster youth. | |||||||||||||||||||||
26 | SB 1388 | Kirk Watson | Heatlh & Human Services | Requires HHSC to include on its child-care public database information on foster care facility providers including minimum standards violations that lead to death or injury including unsafe environment that leads to death or injury, or if a facility has a license, registration, or other occupational authorization revoked by a stage agency. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | SB 1493 | Angela Paxton | HB 72/White | Health & Human Services | Sllows an adoptive child under 18 to remain on STAR Health as opposed to transferring to STAR. | |||||||||||||||||||||
28 | SB 1535 | Jose Menendez | Health & Human Services | Requires HHSC and DFPS to notify the ombudsman whether they accepted or rejected the ombudsman's recommendation and add to the bill of rights a child's right to know the result of the investigation. States that the child files a complaint HHSC and doesn't have to file with an SSCC. Allows the ombudsman to obtain relevant internal information of the SSCC. | Voted out of committee 3/27/19 | Passed Senate | Referred Human Services | |||||||||||||||||||
29 | SB 1544 | Jose Menendez | Health & Human Services | Requires that by the 15th day after an investigation, the investigator of FBSS employee or any DFPS employee shall provide in-prson notice to the person who is alleged to have abused or neglected a child that the person has a right to request an administrative review. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | SB 1660 | Judith Zaffirini | HB 1846/Klick | Health & Human Services | Requires the court after every hearing after a final order to discuss with DFPS what normalcy activities are being provided to the child in care. | |||||||||||||||||||||
31 | SB 1948 | Kirk Watson | HB 3614/Rose | Heatlh & Human Services | Establishes in statute that a caseworker must meet monthly with a child and document why they failed to do so. Requires the caseworker to document the child's safety, the interview, medical and behavioral health needs, and discipline in the home. | |||||||||||||||||||||
32 | SB 2110 | Kirk Watson | Health & Human Services | Removes requirement that a former foster youth has to re-enroll in Medicaid annually. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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