Bill Text: TX SB2591 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the appointment of the Department of Family and Protective Services and a child's parent or legal guardian as joint managing conservators for the child.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-23 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB2591 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2591-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: West, et al. | S.B. No. 2591 | |
| (Shaheen) | ||
| Substitute the following for S.B. No. 2591: No. | ||
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| relating to the appointment of the Department of Family and | ||
| Protective Services and a child's parent or legal guardian as joint | ||
| managing conservators for the child. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 262.352, Family Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (b) to read as follows: | ||
| (b) A court shall enter an order appointing the department | ||
| and the child's parent or legal guardian as joint managing | ||
| conservators of the child if the court finds sufficient evidence to | ||
| satisfy a person of ordinary prudence and caution that the child's | ||
| parent or legal guardian has: | ||
| (1) exhausted all reasonable means available to the | ||
| parent or legal guardian to obtain mental health services to meet | ||
| the child's needs; and | ||
| (2) agreed to actively participate in the child's | ||
| service plan in preparation for the child's return to the parent or | ||
| legal guardian. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed on or after | ||
| the effective date of this Act. A suit affecting the parent-child | ||
| relationship filed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law in effect on the date the suit was filed, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
