Relating to residential treatment facilities for certain juveniles.

89(R) SB 2583 - Introduced version - Bill Text

2025S0226-1 03/12/25

By: Kolkhorst

S.B. No. 2583

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to residential treatment facilities for certain

juveniles.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 554.001(a), Health and Safety Code, is

amended to read as follows:

(a) The department shall
designate facilities for
use [
the

Waco Center for Youth
] as [
a
] residential treatment
facilities

[
facility
] for emotionally disturbed juveniles who:

(1) have been admitted under Subtitle C to a facility

of the department; or

(2) are under the managing conservatorship of the

Department of Family and Protective Services and have been admitted

under Subtitle C to the
designated facilities
[
Waco Center for

Youth
].

SECTION 2. Sections 554.002(a), (b), and (c), Health and

Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:

(a) The department shall provide without charge appropriate

education services for all clients residing at the
designated

facilities
[
Waco Center for Youth
].

(b) The department shall pay for those services from funds

appropriated to the
designated facilities
[
center
] for
those

purposes
[
that purpose
].

(c) A client of the center who is not a resident of the
local

school district
[
Waco Independent School District
] may receive

education services from the
local school district
[
Waco Independent

School District
] only with the prior approval of the superintendent

of the district.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives

a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as

provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this

Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this

Act takes effect September 1, 2025.