Title IV-E of the federal Social Security Act requires that a state's child-care licensing agency apply the same standards to relatives who choose to become a foster parent as it applies to non-relatives, with the exception that the child-care licensing agency may, on a case-by-case basis, waive a non-safety related standard with respect to a relative child in care.

Source Note: The provisions of this §700.1035 adopted to be effective March 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 878