(a) "Child-placing personnel" are persons, who, under the auspices of a child-placing agency, plan for the placement of or place a child in a residential child-care operation, agency foster home, or adoptive home.
(b) For the purposes of this section, planning for placement or placing a child includes any of the following activities:
  (1) Developing a child's admission assessment or service plan for a child in the care of a child-placing agency;
  (2) Performing case management activities for a child in the care of a child-placing agency;
  (3) Conducting a home study;
  (4) Conducting foster home verification activities; and/or
  (5) Developing corrective or adverse actions for agency foster homes.
(c) Planning for placement or placing a child does not include serving as a foster parent or a caregiver for the child.

Source Note: The provisions of this §745.8921 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 9342; transferred effective July 15, 2019, as published in the June 14, 2019 issue of the Texas Register, 44 TexReg 2963