Section 531.162 - [Repealed Effective 4/1/2025] Permanency Reporting(a) For each of the local permanency planning sites, the commission shall develop a reporting system under which each appropriate health and human services agency responsible for permanency planning under this subchapter is required to provide to the commission semiannually:(1) the number of permanency plans developed by the agency for children residing in institutions or children at risk of being placed in institutions;(2) progress achieved in implementing permanency plans;(3) the number of children served by the agency residing in institutions;(4) the number of children served by the agency at risk of being placed in an institution served by the local permanency planning sites;(5) the number of children served by the agency reunited with their families or placed with alternate permanent families; and(6) cost data related to the development and implementation of permanency plans.(b) The executive commissioner shall submit a semiannual report to the governor and the committees of each house of the legislature that have primary oversight jurisdiction over health and human services agencies regarding:(1) the number of children residing in institutions in this state and, of those children, the number for whom a recommendation has been made for a transition to a community-based residence but who have not yet made that transition;(2) the circumstances of each child described by Subdivision (1), including the type of institution and name of the institution in which the child resides, the child's age, the residence of the child's parents or guardians, and the length of time in which the child has resided in the institution;(3) the number of permanency plans developed for children residing in institutions in this state, the progress achieved in implementing those plans, and barriers to implementing those plans;(4) the number of children who previously resided in an institution in this state and have made the transition to a community-based residence;(5) the number of children who previously resided in an institution in this state and have been reunited with their families or placed with alternate families;(6) the community supports that resulted in the successful placement of children described by Subdivision (5) with alternate families; and(7) the community supports that are unavailable but necessary to address the needs of children who continue to reside in an institution in this state after being recommended to make a transition from the institution to an alternate family or community-based residence.Tex. Gov't. Code § 531.162
Repealed by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 769,Sec. 3.01, eff. 4/1/2025.Amended by Acts 2015, Texas Acts of the 84th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 1,Sec. 2.168, eff. 4/2/2015.Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 241, Sec. 1, eff. 5/23/1997. Renumbered from Sec. 531.155 and amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 590, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2001.