(a) Any person who is licensed or verified to provide 24-hour residential care for a child, as provided under Chapter 42, Human Resources Code, and related Child Care Licensing rules, is eligible to receive foster care reimbursement for a child who is in the temporary or permanent managing conservatorship of DFPS and who is placed with that person under a foster care agreement.
(b) The simplest way for relatives or other individuals to become eligible to receive foster care reimbursement on behalf of that child is to become a verified foster parent through Child Protective Services or a private child-placing agency and to enter into a Placement Authorization agreement with DFPS to provide 24-hour residential care for the child.
(c) In order for a person to be eligible for foster care reimbursements for a six-consecutive month period as required under §700.1029(b)(2) of this title (relating to What are the eligibility criteria for receipt of permanency care assistance?), each of the following conditions must be satisfied throughout the same consecutive six-month period:
  (1) the child is living with the person;
  (2) the person must be licensed or verified to care for the child;
  (3) the person has entered into a Foster Care Placement Authorization agreement for the care of the child and the agreement remains in effect; and
  (4) the child remains in the sole managing conservatorship of DFPS.
(d) A person who has been awarded sole or joint managing conservatorship of a child in a temporary or final order is not entitled to foster care reimbursements for that child.

Source Note: The provisions of this §700.1031 adopted to be effective March 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 878; amended to be effective December 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 9744; amended to be effective January 19, 2017, 42 TexReg 84