Tex. Human Resources Code § 40.0025
This is the official text of Tex. Human Resources Code § 40.0025, part of Texas’s Human Resources Code — governs state social services and welfare programs.
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§ 40.0025. AGENCY FUNCTIONS.
Official statutory text
(a) In this section, "function" includes a power, duty, program, or activity and an administrative support services function associated with the power, duty, program, or activity, unless consolidated under former Section 531.02012, Government Code.
(b) In accordance with former Subchapter A-1, Chapter 531, Government Code, and notwithstanding any other law, the department performs only functions, including the statewide intake of reports and other information, related to the following services:
(1) child protective services, including services that are required by federal law to be provided by this state's child welfare agency;
(2) adult protective services, other than investigations of the alleged abuse, neglect, or exploitation of an elderly person or person with a disability:
(A) in a facility operated, or in a facility or by a person licensed, certified, or registered, by a state agency; or
(B) by a provider that has contracted to provide home and community-based services; and
(3) family support services functions, including:
(A) family support services as defined under Section 137.002; and
(B) programs that:
(i) provide parent education;
(ii) promote healthier parent-child relationships; or
(iii) prevent family violence.
(b) In accordance with former Subchapter A-1, Chapter 531, Government Code, and notwithstanding any other law, the department performs only functions, including the statewide intake of reports and other information, related to the following services:
(1) child protective services, including services that are required by federal law to be provided by this state's child welfare agency;
(2) adult protective services, other than investigations of the alleged abuse, neglect, or exploitation of an elderly person or person with a disability:
(A) in a facility operated, or in a facility or by a person licensed, certified, or registered, by a state agency; or
(B) by a provider that has contracted to provide home and community-based services; and
(3) family support services functions, including:
(A) family support services as defined under Section 137.002; and
(B) programs that:
(i) provide parent education;
(ii) promote healthier parent-child relationships; or
(iii) prevent family violence.
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