Sec. 262.401.  DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:
(1)  "Child who is a candidate for foster care" means a child who is at imminent risk of being removed from the child's home and placed into the conservatorship of the department because of a continuing danger to the child's physical health or safety caused by an act or failure to act of a person entitled to possession of the child but for whom a court of competent jurisdiction has issued an order allowing the child to remain safely in the child's home or in a kinship placement with the provision of family preservation services.
(2)  "Department" means the Department of Family and Protective Services.
(3)  "Family preservation service" means a time-limited, family-focused service, including a service subject to the Family First Prevention Services Act (Title VII, Div. E, Pub. L. No. 115-123), provided to the family of a child who is:
(A)  a candidate for foster care to prevent or eliminate the need to remove the child and to allow the child to remain safely with the child's family; or
(B)  a pregnant or parenting foster youth.
(4)  "Family preservation services plan" means a written plan, based on a professional assessment, listing the family preservation services, including services subject to the Family First Prevention Services Act (Title VII, Div. E, Pub. L. No. 115-123), to be provided to the family of a child who is:
(A)  a candidate for foster care; or
(B)  a pregnant or parenting foster youth.
(5)  "Foster care" means substitute care as defined by Section 263.001.
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 269 (H.B. 3041), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2021.