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TITLE 37PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS
PART 11TEXAS JUVENILE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 380RULES FOR STATE-OPERATED PROGRAMS AND FACILITIES
SUBCHAPTER CPROGRAM SERVICES
DIVISION 4HEALTH CARE SERVICES
RULE §380.9193Family Planning Services
(a) This rule establishes the role of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) in providing family planning education and services to youth in TJJD-operated residential placements.

 (b) Family planning education is available to youth in TJJD-operated residential placements by referral to appropriate community agencies.

(c) If requested by a youth, family planning services, including contraception, will be made available by referring him/her to appropriate community agencies when the youth is released from TJJD residential placement.

 (d) TJJD staff act as a liaison with community organizations that provide comprehensive family planning services for TJJD youth.

 (e) Medical providers paid directly or indirectly by TJJD do not provide contraceptives to TJJD youth as a family planning service.
Source Note: The provisions of this §380.9193 adopted to be effective December 31, 1996, 21 TexReg 12185; transferred effective June 4, 2012, as published in the Texas Register June 22, 2012, 37 TexReg 4639; amended to be effective April 15, 2015, 40 TexReg 1976

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