{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-government-code-546.0206","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Government Code § 546.0206","heading":"IMPLEMENTATION SYSTEM: LOCAL PERMANENCY PLANNING SITES.","body":"The commission shall develop an implementation system that initially consists 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:\n(1) include criteria to identify children who need permanency plans;\n(2) require the establishment of a permanency plan for each child who resides outside the child's family or for whom care or protection is sought in an institution;\n(3) include a process to determine the agency or entity responsible for developing and overseeing implementation of a child's permanency plan;\n(4) identify, blend, and use funds from all available sources to provide customized services and programs to implement a child's permanency plan;\n(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;\n(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\n(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 state-funded program is sought with authority to ensure that:\n(A) family members of each child are aware of:\n(i) intensive services that could prevent placement of the child in an institution; and\n(ii) available placement options; and\n(B) permanency planning is initiated for each child.\nAdded by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 769 (H.B. 4611), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2025.","path":["GOVERNMENT CODE","TITLE 4. EXECUTIVE BRANCH","SUBTITLE I. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","CHAPTER 546. LONG-TERM CARE AND SUPPORT OPTIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES AND ELDERLY INDIVIDUALS","SUBCHAPTER E. PERMANENCY PLANNING"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.546.htm#546.0206","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:16Z","sha256":"6c82652d7e4ee45231c195acb3b19c85df361e88383bb8f52ffe607aaa24cb44","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-government-code-546.0205","next":"us-tx/tex.-government-code-546.0207"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}