SECTION 707.579. What happens after a designated perpetrator requests a release hearing?

(a) After you request a release hearing, the Texas Health and Human Services (HHSC) Legal Services Division, Enforcement Department will ask the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) to appoint an administrative law judge to conduct proceedings necessary to make a final decision in the case.

(b) After SOAH assigns a docket number to your case:

(1) The HHSC Legal Services Division, Enforcement Department will mail notice of the hearing, by to your last known address as shown by our records; or

(2) If the HHSC Legal Services Division, Enforcement Department Docket Clerk has received written notice of representation from an attorney who will be representing you at the hearing, HHSC will send the notice of the hearing to the attorney in a manner allowed under the rules referenced in §707.581 of this division (relating to How is a release hearing conducted?).

(c) You are responsible for providing the HHSC Docket Clerk and DFPS with written notification of any change in address that occurs after having requested a release hearing.

Source Note: The provisions of this §707.579 adopted to be effective March 1, 2012, 37 TexReg 713; transferred effective January 15, 2021, as published in the Texas Register December 11, 2020, 45 TexReg 8882; amended to be effective September 22, 2022, 47 TexReg 6250