Bill Text: TX HB1854 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to loss of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of a court in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-23 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1854 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1854-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to loss of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of a court in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-23 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1854 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1854-Comm_Sub.html
By: Dutton (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) | H.B. No. 1854 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2019; | ||
April 24, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; April 29, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 29, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to loss of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of a court | ||
in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 155.004(a), Family Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) A court of this state loses its continuing, exclusive | ||
jurisdiction to modify its order if: | ||
(1) an order of adoption is rendered by another [ |
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(2) the parents of the child have remarried each other | ||
after the dissolution of a previous marriage between them and file a | ||
suit for the dissolution of their subsequent marriage combined with | ||
a suit affecting the parent-child relationship as if there had not | ||
been a prior court with continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over the | ||
child; or | ||
(3) another court assumed jurisdiction over a suit and | ||
rendered a final order based on incorrect information received from | ||
the vital statistics unit that there was no court of continuing, | ||
exclusive jurisdiction. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies | ||
only to an order of adoption rendered on or after the effective date | ||
of this Act. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) of this section, an | ||
order of adoption rendered in a suit filed as described by Section | ||
103.001(b), Family Code, on or after September 1, 2015, but before | ||
the effective date of this Act by a court that had jurisdiction | ||
under that section to render the order of adoption regardless of | ||
whether another court had continuing, exclusive jurisdiction under | ||
Chapter 155, Family Code, is a final order and is not subject to an | ||
appeal on the basis that the court rendering the order of adoption | ||
did not have continuing, exclusive jurisdiction at the time the | ||
adoption order was rendered. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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