Section 700.1031 - How does a person become eligible for receipt of foster care reimbursement on behalf of a child for at least six consecutive months?(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.40 Tex. Admin. Code § 700.1031
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 by Texas Register, Volume 42, Number 02, January 13, 2017, TexReg 87, eff. 1/19/2017