Amend CSSB 206 (senate committee printing), in SECTION 57 of the bill, by striking proposed Sections 264.126(a)(2)-(6), Family Code (page 23, lines 18-30), and substituting the following:
(2) include a timeline for implementing the foster care redesign throughout this state, any limitations related to the implementation, and a progressive intervention plan and a contingency plan to provide continuity of foster care service delivery if a contract with a single source continuum contractor ends prematurely;
(3) delineate and define the case management roles and responsibilities of the department and the department's contractors and the duties, employees, and related funding that will be transferred to the contractor by the department;
(4) identify any training needs and include long-range and continuous plans for training and cross-training staff;
(5) include a plan for evaluating the costs and tasks associated with each contract procurement, including the initial and ongoing contract costs for the department and contractor;
(6) include the department's contract monitoring approach and a plan for evaluating the performance of each contractor and the foster care redesign system as a whole that includes an independent evaluation of processes and outcomes; and