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Senate Bill 434 |
Senate Author: Nelson et al. |
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Effective: 6-17-11 |
House Sponsor: Raymond |
Senate Bill 434 amends the Government Code to establish a task force to address the relationship between domestic violence and child abuse and neglect, develop policy recommendations to address issues and effects resulting from that relationship, and develop comprehensive statewide best practices guidelines for both child protective services and family violence shelter centers. The bill provides for the composition and duties of the task force and sets out requirements for developing policy recommendations and best practices guidelines. The bill requires the task force to prepare a report to be submitted not later than September 1, 2012, to the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and appropriate committees of the senate and house of representatives and requires the Department of Family and Protective Services to seek the assistance of the task force when proposing or amending a rule as a result of the work done by the task force.