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House Bill 943 |
House Author: Dukes |
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Effective: 9-1-11 |
Senate Sponsor: Nelson |
House Bill 943 amends the Family Code to establish reporting requirements for a child in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) missing from the child's substitute care provider, including requiring DFPS to notify within a specified time frame certain entities and individuals that a child is missing or that a child has returned to the child's substitute care provider, to make continuing efforts to determine the location of a missing child until the child returns to substitute care, and to document certain information in a missing child's case record. The bill requires DFPS, after a missing child returns to the child's substitute care provider, to interview the child to determine why the child was missing and where the child was staying and to report any disclosure made by the child that indicates the child was a victim of a crime during the time the child was missing. The bill amends the Code of Criminal Procedure to set a two-hour maximum time limit on the requirement for local law enforcement agencies immediately to enter certain information into certain missing persons databases after receiving a report of a missing child or other missing person.