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Information about community mental health centers in Texas.

Rules and Standards for Child Care in Texas

Information about Licensed Child Care and Child-Placing Agency Administrator Licensing in Texas.

Information about controlling persons for child care providers.

How to become a child care home provider in Texas.

The HHS Centralized Background Check Unit is required to do background checks to find out if a person has a criminal history or an abuse and neglect history that might be a risk to the health and safety of children. Background checks are required for Child Care providers, Residential Child Care providers, and Foster and adoptive homes.

Licensing and regulatory information for residential child care operations in Texas.

Texas HHS protects children by regulating and educating child care providers.

Provider information about the Texas Burial or Cremation Assistance Registry.

Information about the regulation of health care facilities in Texas.

Information for Texas Medically Dependent Children Program (MDCP) Providers

HHSC is adopting the following new and amended rules regarding child care center interim director in Chapter 746, Minimum Standards for Child-Care Centers.

The Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) has published the 2025 Proprietary System Operator (PSO) Operational Readiness Review (ORR) onboarding schedule and the new PSO Onboarding Standard Process Overview and Timeline (PDF) to the TMHP EVV webpage.

To enhance program integrity, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission is reducing the use of alternative devices as an approved method to clock in and clock out of for Electronic Visit Verification required services.

HHSC has published proposed rule changes for Chapter 745, Licensing in the Texas Register.