Title 5 › Chapter 264 › Subchapter B

Texas Family Code § 264.1073

Treatment Foster Care

Child Welfare Services · Foster Care

The department and single source continuum contractors shall:

(1) lessen employment restrictions to allow single parents to participate in treatment foster care, when quality care is assured;

(2) expand the eligible age for treatment foster care to include children 10 years of age or older;

(3) prepare and plan for the subsequent placement not later than the 30th day after a child is placed in treatment foster care to assist in the transition to the least restrictive placement; and

(4) extend the length of time for a treatment foster care placement.

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

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 621 (S.B. 1896), Sec. 3, eff. June 14, 2021.