Texas Human Resources Code Title 12, Chapter 242 - Operation Of Secure Facilities

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 242.001 - Study Of Treatment Methods; Statistical Records
  (a) The department shall conduct continuing inquiry into the effectiveness of the treatment methods the department employs in the reformation of children. To this end,...
• Texas Section 242.002 - Evaluation Of Treatment Programs; Availability
  (a) The department shall annually review the effectiveness of the department's programs for the rehabilitation and reestablishment in society of children committed to the department,...
• Texas Section 242.003 - Policies And Rules
  (a) The board is responsible for the review and approval of all policies and shall make rules appropriate to the proper accomplishment of the department's...
• Texas Section 242.004 - Employees
  (a) Within the limits specified by legislative appropriation, the department may employ and compensate personnel necessary to carry out the department's duties. (b) Except as...
• Texas Section 242.005 - Professional Information For Advisory Board Members And Employees
  The executive director shall provide to members of any applicable advisory board and to department employees, as often as is necessary, information regarding qualifications for...
• Texas Section 242.006 - Intra-agency Career Ladder Program
  The program shall require intra-agency posting of all positions concurrently with any public postings. Transferred, redesignated and amended from Human Resources Code, Subchapter C, Chapter...
• Texas Section 242.007 - Job Performance Evaluations
  The executive director shall develop a system of annual performance evaluations that are based on documented employee performance. All merit pay for department employees must...
• Texas Section 242.008 - Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement
  (a) The executive director shall prepare and maintain a written policy statement to assure implementation of a program of equal employment opportunity under which all...
• Texas Section 242.009 - Juvenile Correctional Officers; Staffing
  (a) In this section, "juvenile correctional officer" means a department employee whose primary duties include the custodial supervision of children in the custody of the...
• Texas Section 242.010 - Required Background And Criminal History Checks
  (a) In this section, "national criminal history record information" means criminal history record information obtained from the Department of Public Safety under Subchapter F, Chapter...

SUBCHAPTER B SECURE FACILITIES; SERVICES

• Texas Section 242.011 - Biennial Budget
  The executive director shall prepare a biennial budget of all funds necessary to be appropriated by the legislature to the department to carry out the...
• Texas Section 242.051 - Administration Of Institutions; Charge Of Children
  (a) The department shall: (1) administer the training, diagnostic treatment, and supervisory facilities and services of the state for children committed to the department; and...
• Texas Section 242.052 - Buildings And Improvements
  (a) The department may design, construct, equip, furnish, and maintain buildings and improvements at facilities under the department's jurisdiction. (b) The department may employ architects...
• Texas Section 242.053 - Use Of Existing Institutions And Agencies
  (a) In carrying out the department's duties, the department may make use of law-enforcement, detention, supervisory, medical, educational, correctional, and other facilities, institutions, and agencies...
• Texas Section 242.054 - Halfway House Program
  (a) The department may not develop a halfway house to be operated by the department if an appropriate private halfway house program is contractually available...
• Texas Section 242.055 - Crisis Intervention And Assessment Centers
  The department may establish a children's crisis intervention and assessment center at a facility owned or operated by the department. The department may contract with...
• Texas Section 242.056 - Advocacy And Support Groups
  (a) The department shall allow advocacy and support groups whose primary functions are to benefit children, inmates, girls and women, the mentally ill, or victims...
• Texas Section 242.057 - Department Programs
  (a) The department shall develop and use standards based on performance to evaluate and compare programs operated by the department. (b) When practicable and feasible,...
• Texas Section 242.058 - Services For Children Not Committed To The Department
  The department may provide services to a child not committed to the department if the department contracts with a local juvenile probation department, the Health...
• Texas Section 242.059 - Additional Facilities; Parole Supervision
  When funds are available, the department may: (1) establish and operate places for detention and diagnosis of children committed to it; (2) establish and operate...
• Texas Section 242.060 - Computation Of Daily Costs Of Facility
  In computing the daily costs of a residential facility operated by the department, the department shall use a standard method that is: (1) consistent with...
• Texas Section 242.061 - Referrals From Federal Court
  The department may enter into agreements with the federal government to accept children from the federal court for an agreed compensation. Transferred, redesignated and amended...
• Texas Section 242.062 - Special Accounts
  (a) Proceeds from the operation of canteens and vending machines at facilities under the jurisdiction of the department shall be deposited to the credit of...
• Texas Section 242.063 - Student Trust Fund; Contraband Money
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), money belonging to a child committed to the department in excess of the amount the department allows in...
• Texas Section 242.064 - Debit Card Suspense Accounts
  (a) The department may establish debit card suspense accounts necessary to operate magnetic debit card systems at facilities under the jurisdiction of the department to...
• Texas Section 242.065 - Religious Training
  The department shall provide for the religious and spiritual training of children in its custody according to the children's individual choices. Transferred, redesignated and amended...
• Texas Section 242.066 - Employment Or Designation Of Chaplain At Certain Department Facilities
  The department shall ensure that a chaplain is employed or formally designated for each department correctional facility that is an institution. Transferred, redesignated and amended...
• Texas Section 242.067 - Violence Prevention And Conflict Resolution Education
  The department shall provide education in violence prevention and conflict resolution that includes discussion of domestic violence and child abuse issues to all children in...
• Texas Section 242.068 - Fire Protection Activities
  (a) The department may perform fire protection, fire prevention, and fire suppression activities at department facilities. (b) The department may prescribe circumstances under which, for...
• Texas Section 242.069 - Client Service Contract Standards
  In each contract for the purchase of residential program-related client services, the department shall include: (1) clearly defined contract goals, outputs, and measurable outcomes that...
• Texas Section 242.070 - Contract Monitoring
  The department shall establish a formal program to monitor residential program-related client services contracts made by the department. The department must: (1) monitor compliance with...

SUBCHAPTER C ABUSE OR CRIMES COMMITTED AT DEPARTMENT

• Texas Section 242.071 - Sale Or License Of Treatment Programs
  (a) The department may sell or license to an individual or a private or public entity the right to use a treatment program developed by...
• Texas Section 242.101 - Zero-tolerance Policy
  (a) The department shall adopt and enforce a zero-tolerance policy concerning the detection, prevention, and punishment of the sexual abuse, including consensual sexual contact, of...
• Texas Section 242.102 - Office Of Inspector General
  (a) The office of inspector general is established at the department under the direction of the board for the purpose of investigating: (1) crimes committed...
• Texas Section 242.103 - Detection And Monitoring Of Cellular Telephones
  (a) The department may own and the office of the inspector general may possess, install, operate, or monitor an electronic, mechanical, or other device, as...

Last modified: September 28, 2016