| (a) For children placed in adoption, you must maintain
complete child, birth parent, and adoptive family records permanently
or transfer them, as appropriate, to the Bureau of Vital Statistics.
(b) You must maintain a foster child's complete record
from admittance to discharge for two years from the date of discharge,
or until the resolution of any investigation involving the child,
whichever is longer.
(c) You must maintain records for verified foster homes
for at least five years after the foster home is closed. This includes
foster homes that did not receive placements.
(d) You must maintain records for approved adoptive
applicants with whom you did not place a child for at least five
years after the family withdraws or you close consideration of the
family for a placement.
(e) You must maintain records for applicants for foster
or adoptive homes whom you did not verify or approve for at least
one year after denial of the application.
(f) You do not have to maintain records of foster or
adoptive home applicants who drop out before the completion of a home
screening.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §749.585 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7469; amended to be effective September 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 7522; amended to be effective January 1, 2017, TexReg 9944; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909 |
