Texas Family Code Chapter 263External Link concerns the temporary or permanent placement of children under DFPS conservatorship. It does the following:

• Mandates that DFPS create permanency plans, with concurrent primary and alternate permanency goals, for every child in DFPS conservatorship.
• Requires the court to conduct permanency hearings within certain time frames and specifies certain issues the court must review at each hearing.
• Specifies deadlines (including the automatic dismissal on the Monday following one year from the date that temporary managing conservatorship is awarded to DFPS unless the court grants an extension) for achieving a final order in a suit affecting a parent-child relationship.
• Provides for the extension of the court’s jurisdiction when a young adult ages out of foster care and certain additional criteria are met.