Texas Human Resources Code Title 12, Chapter 244 - Care And Treatment Of Children

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL CARE AND TREATMENT OF CHILDREN

• Texas Section 244.001 - Initial Examination
  (a) The department shall examine and make a study of each child committed to it within three business days after commitment. The study shall be...
• Texas Section 244.002 - Reexamination
  (a) The department shall periodically reexamine each child under its control, except those on release under supervision or in foster homes, for the purpose of...
• Texas Section 244.003 - Records Of Examinations And Treatment
  (a) The department shall keep written records of all examinations and conclusions based on them and of all orders concerning the disposition or treatment of...
• Texas Section 244.004 - Failure To Examine Or Reexamine
  (a) Failure of the department to examine or reexamine a child as required by this subchapter does not entitle the child to be discharged from...
• Texas Section 244.005 - Determination Of Treatment
  When a child has been committed to the department, the department may: (1) permit the child liberty under supervision and on conditions the department believes...
• Texas Section 244.006 - Type Of Treatment Permitted
  (a) As a means of correcting the socially harmful tendencies of a child committed to the department, the department may: (1) require the child to...
• Texas Section 244.007 - Family Programs
  The department shall develop programs that encourage family involvement in the rehabilitation of the child. Transferred, redesignated and amended from Human Resources Code, Subchapter E,...
• Texas Section 244.0075 - Restraint Of Pregnant Juvenile
  (a) The department may not use restraints to control the movement of a pregnant child who is committed to the department at any time during...
• Texas Section 244.008 - Infant Care And Parenting Program
  (a) In this section, "child" means the child of a person who is committed to the department. (b) The department may establish child care and...
• Texas Section 244.009 - Health Care Delivery System
  (a) In providing medical care, behavioral health care, or rehabilitation services, the department shall integrate the provision of those services in an integrated comprehensive delivery...
• Texas Section 244.010 - Department Caseworkers
  (a) The department shall assign a caseworker to a child committed to the department. A department caseworker shall: (1) explore family issues and needs with...
• Texas Section 244.0105 - Report Concerning Foster Children Committed To Department
  (a) Not later than the 10th day before the date of a permanency hearing under Subchapter D, Chapter 263, Family Code, or Subchapter F, Chapter...
• Texas Section 244.0106 - Rules Regarding Services For Foster Children
  (a) The board and the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall jointly adopt rules to ensure that a child for whom...
• Texas Section 244.011 - Children With Mental Illness Or Mental Retardation
  (a) The department shall accept a child committed to the department who is mentally ill or mentally retarded. (b) Unless a child is committed to...
• Texas Section 244.012 - Examination Before Discharge
  (a) The department shall establish a system that identifies children in the department's custody who are mentally ill or mentally retarded. (b) Before a child...
• Texas Section 244.0125 - Transfer Of Certain Children Serving Determinate Sentences For Mental Health Services
  (a) The department may petition the juvenile court that entered the order of commitment for a child for the initiation of mental health commitment proceedings...
• Texas Section 244.013 - Notice Of Pending Discharge
  As soon as practicable after the department makes a decision to discharge a child or authorize the child's absence from the department's custody, the department...
• Texas Section 244.014 - Referral Of Determinate Sentence Offenders For Transfer
  (a) After a child sentenced to commitment under Section 54.04(d)(3), 54.04(m), or 54.05(f), Family Code, becomes 16 years of age but before the child becomes...

SUBCHAPTER B PROVISION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION; RIGHTS OF PARENTS

• Texas Section 244.015 - Evaluation Of Certain Children Serving Determinate Sentences
  (a) When a child who is sentenced to commitment under Section 54.04(d)(3), 54.04(m), or 54.05(f), Family Code, becomes 18 years of age, the department shall...
• Texas Section 244.051 - Information Available To Children, Parents, And Others
  (a) In the interest of achieving the purpose of the department and protecting the public, the department may disclose records and other information concerning a...
• Texas Section 244.052 - Rights Of Parents
  (a) The department, in consultation with advocacy and support groups such as those described in Section 242.056(a), shall develop a parent's bill of rights for...

Last modified: September 28, 2016