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Amend CSSB 6, in Article 1 of the bill, by adding the
following appropriately numbered section to the article and
renumbering the remaining sections of the article as appropriate:
SECTION 1.____. Subchapter B, Chapter 264, Family Code, is
amended by adding Section 264.117 to read as follows:
Sec. 264.117. NOTICE TO ATTORNEY AD LITEM. (a) The
department shall notify the attorney ad litem for a child in the
conservatorship of the department about each event involving the
child that the department reports in the child's case file.
(b) The department shall give a child's attorney ad litem
written notice at least 48 hours before the date the department
changes the child's residential care provider. The department may
change the child's residential care provider without notice if the
department determines that an immediate change is necessary to
protect the child.