Texas Human Resources Code Title 12, Chapter 221 - Assistance To Counties And Regulation Of Juvenile Boards And Juvenile Probation Departments

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 221.001 - Provision Of Probation And Detention Services
  (a) The department shall assist counties in providing probation and juvenile detention services by encouraging the continued operation of county and multi-county juvenile boards or...
• Texas Section 221.002 - General Rules Governing Juvenile Boards, Probation Departments, Probation Officers, Programs, And Facilities
  (a) The board shall adopt reasonable rules that provide: (1) minimum standards for personnel, staffing, case loads, programs, facilities, record keeping, equipment, and other aspects...
• Texas Section 221.003 - Rules Concerning Mental Health Screening Instrument And Risk And Needs Assessment Instrument; Admissibility Of Statements
  (a) The board by rule shall require juvenile probation departments to use the mental health screening instrument selected by the department for the initial screening...
• Texas Section 221.0035 - Best Practices To Identify And Assess Victims Of Sex Trafficking
  (a) In this section, "sex trafficking" means an offense under Section 20A.02(a)(7), Penal Code. (b) The department shall evaluate the practices and screening procedures used...
• Texas Section 221.004 - Standards Relating To Local Probation Departments
  (a) The board shall adopt rules that provide: (1) standards for the collection and reporting of information about juvenile offenders by local probation departments; (2)...
• Texas Section 221.005 - Training And Assistance To Local Authorities
  (a) The department shall provide educational training and technical assistance to counties, juvenile boards, and probation offices to: (1) promote compliance with the standards required...
• Texas Section 221.006 - Violence Prevention And Conflict Resolution Training
  The department shall: (1) provide training on request to juvenile probation departments and juvenile boards in violence prevention and conflict resolution programs that include discussion...
• Texas Section 221.0061 - Trauma-informed Care Training
  The department shall provide trauma-informed care training during the preservice training the department provides for juvenile probation officers, juvenile supervision officers, juvenile correctional officers, and...
• Texas Section 221.007 - Juvenile Board Records And Reports
  Each juvenile board in the state shall: (1) keep the financial, programmatic, and statistical records the department considers necessary; and (2) submit periodic financial, programmatic,...
• Texas Section 221.0071 - Charter School
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law and in addition to the number of charters allowed under Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Education Code, the commissioner of education...
• Texas Section 221.008 - Inspections And Audits
  (a) The department may inspect and evaluate a juvenile board and probation department and audit the juvenile board's financial, programmatic, and statistical records at reasonable...
• Texas Section 221.009 - Strategic Plan; Adoption Of Plan
  (a) The board shall develop a strategic plan. The plan must: (1) identify short-term and long-term policy goals; (2) identify time frames and strategies for...
• Texas Section 221.010 - Complaints Relating To Juvenile Boards
  (a) The department shall maintain a system to promptly and efficiently act on a complaint filed with the department relating to a juvenile board funded...
• Texas Section 221.011 - Investigators
  (a) The department may employ and commission investigators as peace officers for the purpose of investigating allegations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation in juvenile justice...

SUBCHAPTER B CONTRACT STANDARDS AND MONITORING

• Texas Section 221.012 - Annual Reports
  (a) The department shall report annually to the governor and the legislature on the department's operations and the condition of probation services in the state...
• Texas Section 221.051 - Contract Standards
  (a) In each contract with counties for local probation services, the department shall include: (1) clearly defined contract goals, outputs, and measurable outcomes that relate...
• Texas Section 221.052 - Contract Monitoring
  The department shall establish a formal program to monitor contracts under Section 221.051 made by the department. The department must: (1) monitor compliance with financial...
• Texas Section 221.053 - Contracts For Out-of-state Juvenile Inmates
  (a) The only entities other than the state authorized to operate a correctional facility to house in this state juvenile inmates convicted of offenses committed...
• Texas Section 221.054 - Data Collection
  (a) The department shall collect comprehensive data concerning the outcomes of local probation programs throughout the state. (b) Data collected under Subsection (a) must include:...
• Texas Section 221.055 - Quarterly Report On Abuse, Neglect, And Exploitation
  (a) The department shall prepare and deliver a quarterly report to the board concerning the final outcome of any complaint received under Section 261.405, Family...
• Texas Section 221.056 - Residential Treatment Facility
  (a) The department may contract with a local mental health and mental retardation authority for the establishment of a residential treatment facility for juveniles with...

Last modified: September 28, 2016