(a) To be accepted as a foster home, the home must meet the department's minimum standards, and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) must have determined, through the foster-home screening, that the parents can provide adequate care for foster children in the department's managing conservatorship and that they will follow the department's policies for discipline of these children as specified in §700.1502(2)(K) of this title (relating to Foster and Adoptive Home Inquiry and Screening).     
      (b) Relative homes verified to provide foster care services to related children must meet the same requirements as non-relative foster homes. The Residential Child-Care Licensing Division of DFPS will consider requests for waivers and variances to minimum standards for relative foster homes on a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable statutes, rules, and policies on waiver and variance requests for foster homes.     
     Source Note:        The provisions of this §700.1501 adopted to be effective October 31, 1984, 9 TexReg 5431; amended to be effective August 15, 1990, 15 TexReg 4031; transferred effective September 1, 1992, as published in the Texas Register September 11, 1992, 17 TexReg 6279; amended to be effective June 15, 1997, 22 TexReg 4641; amended to be effective January 1, 1998, 22 TexReg 12547; amended to be effective March 1, 2001, 26 TexReg 1351; amended to be effective March 1, 2012, 37 TexReg 714