By: West S.B. No. 203

(In the Senate - Filed November 14, 2016; January 25, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services; March 30, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 30, 2017, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to removing the deadline for the Department of Family and Protective Services to enter into permanency care assistance agreements.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 264.857, Family Code, is repealed.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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