Texas § HR.45.002 - DEFINITIONS

§ HR.45.002. DEFINITIONS

DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Adverse action" means any action that directly or indirectly adversely affects the person against whom the adverse action is taken, places the person in a worse position than the person was in before the adverse action was taken, or is likely to deter a reasonable person from acting or refusing to act. An adverse action includes: (A) denying an application for, refusing to renew, or canceling funding; (B) declining to enter into, refusing to renew, or canceling a contract; (C) declining to issue, refusing to renew, or canceling a license; (D) terminating, suspending, demoting, or reassigning a person; and (E) limiting the ability of a person to engage in child welfare services. (2) "Catchment area" means a geographic service area for providing child protective services or child welfare services. (3) "Child welfare services" means social services provided to or on behalf of children, including: (A) assisting abused or neglected children; (B) counseling children or parents; (C) promoting foster parenting; (D) providing foster homes, general residential operations, residential care, adoptive homes, group homes, or temporary group shelters for children; (E) recruiting foster parents; (F) placing children in foster homes; (G) licensing foster homes; (H) promoting adoption or recruiting adoptive parents; (I) assisting adoptions or supporting adoptive families; (J) performing or assisting home studies; (K) assisting kinship guardianships or kinship caregivers; (L) providing family preservation services; (M) providing family support services; (N) providing temporary family reunification services; (O) placing children in adoptive homes; and (P) serving as a foster parent. (4) "Child welfare services provider" means a person, other than a governmental entity, that provides, seeks to provide, or applies for or receives a contract, subcontract, grant, subgrant, or cooperative agreement to provide child welfare services. The person is not required to be engaged exclusively in child welfare services to be a child welfare services provider. (5) "Governmental entity" means: (A) this state or a municipality or other political subdivision of this state; (B) any agency of this state or of a municipality or other political subdivision of this state, including a department, bureau, board, commission, office, agency, council, and public institution of higher education; or (C) a single source continuum contractor in this state providing services identified under Section 264.153 , Family Code. Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1152 (H.B. 3859 ), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017. Amended by: Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 915 (H.B. 3607 ), Sec. 11.001, eff. September 1, 2021.