Section 262.401 - Definitions In this subchapter:
(1) "Child who is a candidate for foster care" means a child who is at imminent risk of being removed from the child's home and placed into the conservatorship of the department because of a continuing danger to the child's physical health or safety caused by an act or failure to act of a person entitled to possession of the child but for whom a court of competent jurisdiction has issued an order allowing the child to remain safely in the child's home or in a kinship placement with the provision of family preservation services.(2) "Department" means the Department of Family and Protective Services.(3) "Family preservation service" means a time-limited, family-focused service, including a service subject to the Family First Prevention Services Act (Title VII, Div. E, Pub. L. No. 115-123), provided to the family of a child who is: (A) a candidate for foster care to prevent or eliminate the need to remove the child and to allow the child to remain safely with the child's family; or(B) a pregnant or parenting foster youth.(4) "Family preservation services plan" means a written plan, based on a professional assessment, listing the family preservation services, including services subject to the Family First Prevention Services Act (Title VII, Div. E, Pub. L. No. 115-123), to be provided to the family of a child who is:(A) a candidate for foster care; or(B) a pregnant or parenting foster youth.(5) "Foster care" means substitute care as defined by Section 263.001.Added by Acts 2021, Texas Acts of the 87th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 269,Sec. 2, eff. 9/1/2021.