1. (a) The commission shall develop and implement a preventive services program to serve veterans and military families who have committed or experienced or who are at a high risk of:

   1. (1) family violence; or
   2. (2) abuse or neglect.

2. (b) The program must:

   1. (1) be designed to coordinate with community-based organizations to provide prevention services;
   2. (2) include a prevention component and an early intervention component;
   3. (3) include collaboration with services for child welfare, services for early childhood education, and other child and family services programs; and

   4. (4) coordinate with the community collaboration initiative developed under Subchapter I, Chapter 434, Government Code, and committees formed by local communities as part of that initiative.

      Transferred, redesignated and amended from Human Resources Code, Chapter 53 by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1033 (S.B. 24), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2023.

Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 324 (H.B. 19), Sec. 1, eff. June 4, 2015.