Bill Text: TX SB387 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 387

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to procedures for ex parte hearings in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-15 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB387 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB387-Introduced.html

	88R2256 MLH-F

	By: Hall	S.B. No. 387



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to procedures for ex parte hearings in a suit affecting the
	parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and
	Protective Services.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 262.206, Family Code, is amended to read
	as follows:
	Sec. 262.206. EX PARTE HEARINGS [~~PROHIBITED~~]. (a) Unless
	otherwise authorized by this chapter or other law, a hearing held by
	a court in a suit under this chapter may not be ex parte.
	(b) A court that holds an ex parte hearing authorized by
	this chapter shall prepare and keep a record of the hearing in the
	form of an audio or video recording or a court reporter
	transcription.
	(c) On request of a party to the suit, the court shall
	provide a copy of the record of an ex parte hearing to the party.
	SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
	a suit filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services on
	or after the effective date of this Act. A suit filed by the
	department before that date 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 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, 2023.