Sec. 51.003.  CONTRACTS.  (a)  The commission shall contract for services with family violence centers with consideration given to the plan for family violence services under Section 51.0021. These contracts are to expand existing family violence center services and may not result in reducing financial support a family violence center receives from another source.  The contracts shall not provide for more than 75 percent of the cost of the family violence center program.  The commission shall develop a declining scale of state financial support for family violence centers, declining over a six-year period from the initiation of each individual contract, with no more than 50 percent of a family violence center program's funding to be provided by the state after the sixth year.  The balance each year shall be provided from other sources.  The executive commissioner may adopt rules which will allow exceptions to the above scale in individual instances when a family violence center shall demonstrate that exigent circumstances require such a waiver.
(b)  The commission may contract with family violence special projects for services.  The commission shall consider the plan for family violence services under Section 51.0021 in contracting with family violence special projects.
(c)  The commission shall contract statewide for activities that support and advance the work of family violence centers.  Activities contracted for under this subsection must include the provision of technical assistance and training for family violence centers.  The commission may contract for the provision of public education, consultation to the commission, research, evaluation, and liaison and training for other professionals who work with victims of family violence, including professionals in the criminal justice, medical, and social services fields, and for community or civic groups.
(d)  Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1131 , Sec. 3, eff. June 19, 2015.
Added by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 3313, ch. 867, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 264, Sec. 19, eff. Aug. 26, 1985;  Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 636, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1989;  Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 6, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Amended by: 
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 4.291, eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1131 (S.B. 59), Sec. 3, eff. June 19, 2015.