Text of section effective on April 01, 2025
Sec. 526.0501.  SUBSTITUTE CARE PROVIDER OUTCOME STANDARDS.  (a)  The executive commissioner, after consulting with representatives from the commission, the Department of Family and Protective Services, and the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, shall by rule adopt result-oriented standards that a provider of substitute care services for children under the care of this state must achieve.
(b)  A health and human services agency that purchases substitute care services shall include the result-oriented standards as requirements in each substitute care service provider contract.
(c)  A health and human services agency may provide information about a substitute care provider, including rates, contracts, outcomes, and client information, to another agency that purchases substitute care services.
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 769 (H.B. 4611), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2025.