(a) The executive commissioner, after consulting with representatives from the Department of Family and Protective Services, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, the Department of Aging and Disability Services, and the Department of State Health Services, shall by rule adopt result-oriented standards that a provider of substitute care services for children under the care of the state must achieve.
(b) A health and human services agency that purchases substitute care services must include the result-oriented standards as requirements in each substitute care service provider contract.

(c) A health and human services agency may provide information about a substitute care provider, including rates, contracts, outcomes, and client information, to another agency that purchases substitute care services.

Text of section effective until April 01, 2025