Tex. Human Resources Code § 40.043
This is the official text of Tex. Human Resources Code § 40.043, part of Texas’s Human Resources Code — governs state social services and welfare programs.
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§ 40.043. CHILD SAFETY AND RUNAWAY PREVENTION PROCEDURES.
Official statutory text
The commissioner by rule shall establish the department's strategy to:
(1) develop trauma-informed protocols for reducing the number of incidents in which a child in the conservatorship of the department runs away from a residential treatment center; and
(2) balance measures aimed at protecting child safety with federal and state requirements related to normalcy and decision making under the reasonable and prudent parent standard prescribed by 42 U.S.C. Section 675 and Sections 264.001 and 264.125, Family Code.
(1) develop trauma-informed protocols for reducing the number of incidents in which a child in the conservatorship of the department runs away from a residential treatment center; and
(2) balance measures aimed at protecting child safety with federal and state requirements related to normalcy and decision making under the reasonable and prudent parent standard prescribed by 42 U.S.C. Section 675 and Sections 264.001 and 264.125, Family Code.
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