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Amend CSHB 39 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 264.203(a), Family Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), if the court makes findings under Section 262.201(b) or 262.205(b), the department may request that the court [on request of the department may] order the parent, managing conservator, guardian, or other member of the subject child's household to:
(1) participate in the services the department provides or purchases for:
(A) alleviating the effects of the abuse or neglect that has occurred; or
(B) reducing the reasonable likelihood that the child may be abused or neglected in the immediate or foreseeable future; and
(2) permit the child and any siblings of the child to receive the services.