{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-human-resources-code-40.0025","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Human Resources Code § 40.0025","heading":"AGENCY FUNCTIONS.","body":"(a) In this section, \"function\" includes a power, duty, program, or activity and an administrative support services function associated with the power, duty, program, or activity, unless consolidated under former Section 531.02012, Government Code.\n(b) In accordance with former Subchapter A-1, Chapter 531, Government Code, and notwithstanding any other law, the department performs only functions, including the statewide intake of reports and other information, related to the following services:\n(1) child protective services, including services that are required by federal law to be provided by this state's child welfare agency;\n(2) adult protective services, other than investigations of the alleged abuse, neglect, or exploitation of an elderly person or person with a disability:\n(A) in a facility operated, or in a facility or by a person licensed, certified, or registered, by a state agency; or\n(B) by a provider that has contracted to provide home and community-based services; and\n(3) family support services functions, including:\n(A) family support services as defined under Section 137.002; and\n(B) programs that:\n(i) provide parent education;\n(ii) promote healthier parent-child relationships; or\n(iii) prevent family violence.\nAdded by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 837 (S.B. 200), Sec. 1.19, eff. September 1, 2017.\nAmended by:\nActs 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 769 (H.B. 4611), Sec. 2.91, eff. April 1, 2025.\nActs 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1033 (S.B. 24), Sec. 13, eff. September 1, 2023.","path":["HUMAN RESOURCES CODE","TITLE 2. HUMAN SERVICES AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES IN GENERAL","SUBTITLE D. DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES; CHILD WELFARE AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES","CHAPTER 40. DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HR/htm/HR.40.htm#40.0025","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:18Z","sha256":"897be1550a138b19297cd3b9eb1956a010b07ef6a6fa12b4d009f59c1e853bde","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-human-resources-code-40.002","next":"us-tx/tex.-human-resources-code-40.0026"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}