Section 45.002 - 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.Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 45.002
Amended by Acts 2021, Texas Acts of the 87th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 915,Sec. 11.001, eff. 9/1/2021.Added by Acts 2017, Texas Acts of the 85th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 1152,Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2017.