Tex. Gov't Code § 526.0551

Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.

Section 526.0551 - [Effective 4/1/2025] Definitions

In this subchapter:

(1) "Home visiting program" means a voluntary-enrollment program in which early childhood and health professionals such as nurses, social workers, or trained and supervised paraprofessionals repeatedly visit over a period of at least six months the homes of pregnant women or families with children younger than six years of age who are born with or exposed to one or more risk factors.

(2) "Risk factors" means factors that make a child more likely to experience adverse experiences leading to negative consequences, including preterm birth, poverty, low parental education, having a teenaged mother or father, poor maternal health, and parental underemployment or unemployment. (Gov. Code, Sec. 531.981.)

Tex. Gov't. Code § 526.0551

Added by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 769,Sec. 1.01, eff. 4/1/2025.