87R1432 MCK-D
 
  By: Howard H.B. No. 608
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a Department of Family and Protective Services report
  on youth in the managing conservatorship of the department who are
  pregnant or who are parents.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 264.017(b), Family Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (b)  The department shall provide the report required by
  Subsection (a) to the legislature and shall publish the report and
  make the report available electronically to the public not later
  than February 1 of each year. The report must include, with respect
  to the preceding year:
               (1)  information on the number and disposition of
  reports of child abuse and neglect received by the department;
               (2)  information on the number of clients for whom the
  department took protective action, including investigations,
  alternative responses, and court-ordered removals;
               (3)  information on the number of clients for whom the
  department provided services in each program administered by the
  child protective services division, including investigations,
  alternative responses, family-based safety services,
  conservatorship, post-adoption services, and transitional living
  services;
               (4)  the number of children in this state who died as a
  result of child abuse or neglect;
               (5)  the number of children described by Subdivision
  (4) for whom the department was the children's managing conservator
  at the time of death;
               (6)  information on the timeliness of the department's
  initial contact in an investigation or alternative response;
               (7)  information on the response time by the department
  in commencing services to families and children for whom an
  allegation of child abuse or neglect has been made;
               (8)  information regarding child protection staffing
  and caseloads by program area;
               (9)  information on the permanency goals in place and
  achieved for children in the managing conservatorship of the
  department, including information on the timeliness of achieving
  the goals, the stability of the children's placement in foster
  care, and the proximity of placements to the children's home
  counties;
               (10)  the number of children who suffer from a severe
  emotional disturbance and for whom the department is appointed
  managing conservator, including statistics on appointments as
  joint managing conservator, due to an individual voluntarily
  relinquishing custody of a child solely to obtain mental health
  services for the child;
               (11)  the following information regarding [number of]
  children who are pregnant or who are parents [a parent] while in the
  managing conservatorship of the department:
                     (A)  the number of pregnant female children who
  are at least 13 years of age but younger than 18 years of age
  compared to the total number of female children who are at least 13
  years of age but younger than 18 years of age;
                     (B)  the number of female children who are at
  least 13 years of age but younger than 18 years of age and who have
  given birth to a child compared to the total number of female
  children who are at least 13 years of age but younger than 18 years
  of age;
                     (C)  the number of pregnant female youth who are
  younger than 22 years of age and the following information for each
  youth:
                           (i)  the youth's age;
                           (ii)  the youth's race and ethnicity;
                           (iii)  the youth's county of residence;
                           (iv)  the time the youth has been in
  substitute care; and
                           (v)  the type of substitute care in which the
  youth is placed;
                     (D)  the number of youth who are younger than 22
  years of age and who are parents and the following information for
  each youth:
                           (i)  the youth's gender;
                           (ii)  the youth's age;
                           (iii)  the youth's race and ethnicity;
                           (iv)  the youth's county of residence;
                           (v)  the time the youth has been in
  substitute care; and
                           (vi)  the type of substitute care in which
  the youth is placed;
                     (E)  the number of youth who are parents of at
  least one child who is also in the managing conservatorship of the
  department and the following information for each youth:
                           (i)  the type of substitute care in which the
  youth is placed; and
                           (ii)  whether the youth and the child are
  placed together;
                     (F)  for youth described by Paragraphs (C) and (D)
  who exit the department's conservatorship, the following
  information for each youth:
                           (i)  whether the youth is adopted, reunited
  with the youth's family, or emancipated;
                           (ii)  the youth's age on the date the youth
  exited the department's conservatorship; and
                           (iii)  the time the youth spent in
  substitute care;
                     (G)  the number of children who are at least 11
  years of age but younger than 18 years of age and who are pregnant or
  who are parents at the time the child enters the conservatorship of
  the department; and
                     (H)  the number of children who are at least 11
  years of age but younger than 18 years of age and who become
  pregnant or who become parents while in the conservatorship of the
  department [and the number of the children born to a parent in the
  managing conservatorship of the department who are placed in the
  managing conservatorship of the department];
               (12)  the number of children who are missing from the
  children's substitute care provider while in the managing
  conservatorship of the department; and
               (13)  the number of children who were victims of
  trafficking under Chapter 20A, Penal Code, while in the managing
  conservatorship of the department.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.