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2022 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 40 - Department of Family and Protective Services
Subchapter B. Administrative Provisions
Section 40.043. Child Safety and Runaway Prevention Procedures
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TX Hum Res Code § 40.043 (2022)
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Sec. 40.043. CHILD SAFETY AND RUNAWAY PREVENTION PROCEDURES. 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.
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 394 (S.B. 781), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.
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