Tex. Human Resources Code Section 137.251
Definitions

In this subchapter:

(1)

“Home visiting program” means a voluntary-enrollment program in which early childhood and health professionals such as nurses, social workers, or trained and supervised paraprofessionals repeatedly visit over a period of at least six months the homes of pregnant women or families with children under the age of six who are born with or exposed to one or more risk factors.

(2)

“Risk factors” means factors that make a child more likely to experience adverse experiences leading to negative consequences, including preterm birth, poverty, low parental education, having a teenaged mother or father, poor maternal health, and parental underemployment or unemployment.
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 421 (S.B. 426), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.
Transferred and redesignated from Government Code, Subchapter X, Chapter 531 (Health and Human Services Commission) by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1033 (S.B. 24), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2023.

Source: Section 137.251 — Definitions, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/HR/htm/HR.­137.­htm#137.­251 (accessed May 11, 2024).

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