Texas Administrative Code

Texas Administrative Code

TITLE 26	HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PART 1	HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 749	MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES
SUBCHAPTER C	ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION
DIVISION 8	CLIENTS AND APPEALS
RULE §749.421	Who are my clients?

(a) Anyone can request information from you or attend a meeting open to all interested persons. A person becomes your client when you establish a relationship beyond that available to someone who is merely an interested person.

(b) Your child clients include children in:

(1) Foster care; and

(2) Pre-consummated adoptive placement.

(1) Birth parents, managing conservators, or whoever has legal responsibility for children they are placing in your care;

(2) Foster parent applicants;

(3) Foster parents;

(4) Adoptive applicants;

(5) Adoptive parents prior to consummation of the adoption;

(6) Adoptive parents and birth parents seeking post adoption services; and

(7) Young adults in your care.

Source Note: The provisions of this §749.421 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7469; amended to be effective January 1, 2017, 41 TexReg 9944; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909