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ADVOCACY COMMITTEE

AWARDS COMMITTEE

STATEWIDE AWARDS RECOGNITION

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Jeanette Elias

MEMBERS

Karen Cook
Sandy Hilliard

 

 

 

Report Suspected Abuse​

Call 1-800-252-5400 or

Visit www.txabusehotline.org

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ADVOCACY COMMITTEE

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Janet Stansbury – Co-chair

MEMBERS

Joel Levine

Nancy Preston

Sandy Hilliard

Estella Olguin

 

2018 CONFERENCE CALL SCHEDULE

January 11, 2018 @ 5pm

 

STATEWIDE ADVOCACY

  • FIND YOUR TEXAS LEGISLATOR

  • APRIL 2018

  • CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH

  • TEXAS GO BLUE DAY – FRIDAY, APRIL 6TH, 2018

  • NATIONAL BLUE SUNDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 29TH, 2018

  • MAY 2018

  • NATIONAL FOSTER CARE MONTH

  • Find your legislator by entering your address, or browse a list of current elected officials in Texas.

    TexProtects has compiled a list of committee assignments for our elected officials in the attached for our State Senators and our State Representatives. They have limited the list to those committees in which child protection legislation is generally referred. Please take note of the legislators from your district/city who have been assigned to these key committees.

  • 84TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION SUMMARY

  • 85TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION INTERIM CHARGES

  • GUIDE TO TEXAS LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION

  • Texas Legislature 101

  • Texas has a biennial legislature that meets in Regular Session starting on the second Tuesday of January in odd-numbered years.

  • Regular Sessions last for 140 days or twenty weeks. The Governor can also call Special Sessions of the legislature. These last 30 days or until the legislature decides to adjourn.

  • Texas has two lawmaking bodies, the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate.

  • The House has 150 members elected to two-year terms (average population of district is around 150,000). The presiding officer in the House is the Speaker who is elected by a vote of the members.

  • The Senate has 31 members who normally serve four-year terms (average population of district is around 800,000). The Lt. Governor presides over the Senate and is elected statewide.

  • HELPFUL RESOURCES:

  • UNDERSTANDING THE TEXAS CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM

  • WHERE TO FIND STATISTICAL INFORMATION ABOUT CHILDREN IN DFPS CARE

  • CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA

  • PREVENT CHILD ABUSE OF AMERICA

  • TCCWB CHILD WELFARE BOARD BROCHURE – CUSTOMIZABLE

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