Section 42.0463 - Expansion of Capacity(a) Notwithstanding the limitations established by Section 42.002, the department may: (1) develop, by rule, criteria to determine when it may be appropriate to exclude children who are related to a caretaker in determining a residential child-care facility's total capacity; and(2) issue an exception in accordance with department rules allowing an agency foster home, cottage family home, or specialized child-care home to expand its capacity and care for not more than eight children.(b) The department may include children who are related to a caretaker when determining under Subsection (a)(1) whether a residential child-care facility complies with the standards relating to total capacity or child-to-caregiver ratios for the facility.Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 42.0463
Added by Acts 2017, Texas Acts of the 85th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 317,Sec. 59, eff. 9/1/2017.