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Texas Family Code - Section 231.310. Interagency Work Group

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§ 231.310. INTERAGENCY WORK GROUP.  (a) The Title IV-D 
agency shall establish a work group to facilitate the sharing of 
data and resources to locate parents and relatives of children 
served by the Title IV-D agency and other health and human services 
agencies.
	(b)  The work group shall consist of representatives from the 
Title IV-D agency, the Department of Protective and Regulatory 
Services, the Texas Department of Human Services, the Texas 
Department of Health, the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas 
Department of Public Safety, the Texas Rehabilitation Commission, 
and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
	(c)  The commissioner of human services or the 
commissioner's designee shall serve as the work group's presiding 
officer.
	(d)  The work group shall evaluate the procedures used by 
each agency in the work group to locate parents and relatives of 
children served by the agencies and develop a mechanism to ensure 
that each agency in the work group, or any private contractor 
performing location functions for an agency, is able to access 
information in the database of each other agency without paying a 
fee.
	(e)  The work group shall evaluate opportunities for using 
outside contracting and coordinating efforts with other community 
resources.
	(f)  To the extent possible, the Department of Protective and 
Regulatory Services and the Title IV-D agency shall use outside 
contractors and community resources to locate parents in child 
protection and child support cases.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 228, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.           

Last modified: August 11, 2007