Texas Human Resources Code - Section 40.001. Definitions
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§ 40.001. DEFINITIONS. In this subtitle:
(1) Repealed by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 268, §
1.129(1).
(2) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services
Commission.
(2-a) "Council" means the Family and Protective
Services Council.
(3) "Department" means the Department of Family and
Protective Services.
(4) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the
Department of Family and Protective Services.
(4-a) "Executive commissioner" means the executive
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(5) "Family preservation" includes the provision of
services designed to assist families, including adoptive and
extended families, who are at risk or in crisis, including:
(A) preventive services designed to help a child
at risk of foster care placement remain safely with the child's
family; and
(B) services designed to help a child return,
when the return is safe and appropriate, to the family from which
the child was removed.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 920, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1022, § 1, eff. Sept. 1,
1997; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 198, § 1.10, eff. Sept. 1, 2003;
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 268, § 1.75, 1.129(1), eff. Sept. 1,
2005.
Section: 36.112 36.113 36.114 36.115 36.116 36.117 36.132 40.001 40.002 40.003 40.004 40.0041 40.005 40.006 40.007
Last modified: August 11, 2007
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