Section 531.158 - [Repealed Effective 4/1/2025] Local Permanency Planning Sites The commission shall develop an implementation system that consists initially of four or more local sites and that is designed to coordinate planning for a permanent living arrangement and relationship for a child with a family. In developing the system, the commission shall:
(1) include criteria to identify children who need permanency plans;(2) require the establishment of a permanency plan for each child who lives outside the child's family or for whom care or protection is sought in an institution;(3) include a process to determine the agency or entity responsible for developing and overseeing implementation of a child's permanency plan;(4) identify, blend, and use funds from all available sources to provide customized services and programs to implement a child's permanency plan;(5) clarify and expand the role of a local community resource coordination group in ensuring accountability for a child who resides in an institution or who is at risk of being placed in an institution;(6) require reporting of each placement or potential placement of a child in an institution or other living arrangement outside of the child's home; and(7) assign in each local permanency planning site area a single gatekeeper for all children in the area for whom placement in an institution through a program funded by the state is sought with authority to ensure that:(A) family members of each child are aware of:(i) intensive services that could prevent placement of the child in an institution; and(ii) available placement options; and(B) permanency planning is initiated for each child.Tex. Gov't. Code § 531.158
Repealed by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 769,Sec. 3.01, eff. 4/1/2025.Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 421, Sec. 1, eff. 5/23/1997. Renumbered from Sec. 531.154 by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 590, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2001.