Bill Text: TX HB3121 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to an interim study of suits affecting the parent-child relationship in cases involving abuse and other harmful conduct engaged in by a party.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-03 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB3121 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3121-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Bowers | H.B. No. 3121 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3121: | |||
By: Dutton | C.S.H.B. No. 3121 |
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relating to an interim study of suits affecting the parent-child | ||
relationship in cases involving abuse and other harmful conduct | ||
engaged in by a party. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. (a) Pursuant to Section 111.001, Family Code, | ||
the standing committees of each house of the legislature having | ||
jurisdiction over family law issues shall jointly study and | ||
recommend revisions to the provisions of Chapter 153, Family Code, | ||
regarding the manner in which the courts of this state, in rendering | ||
an order for conservatorship and possession of and access to a | ||
child, provide for the safety and best interest of the child. The | ||
study must: | ||
(1) focus on cases in which a party has engaged in: | ||
(A) family violence or dating violence, as those | ||
terms are defined by Chapter 71, Family Code; | ||
(B) abuse or neglect, as those terms are defined | ||
by Section 261.001, Family Code; or | ||
(C) conduct constituting offenses under Sections | ||
21.02, 22.011, 22.021 and 25.02, Penal Code; and | ||
(2) include: | ||
(A) the impact of a history of conduct described | ||
by Subdivision (1) on a child; and | ||
(B) the effects on the courts' considerations of | ||
conduct described by Subdivision (1) in the appointment of joint | ||
managing conservators, sole managing conservators, and possessory | ||
conservators in suits affecting the parent-child relationship. | ||
(b) Not later than December 1, 2020, the committees | ||
described by Subsection (a) shall jointly submit a report of the | ||
study's results to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the | ||
speaker of the house of representatives, and members of the | ||
legislature. The report must include recommendations for changes | ||
to the relevant statutes. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act expires September 1, 2021. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |