Bill Text: TX SB718 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to additional periods of possession of or access to a child to compensate for denial of court-ordered possession or access.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB718 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB718-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to additional periods of possession of or access to a child to compensate for denial of court-ordered possession or access.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB718 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB718-Comm_Sub.html
By: Paxton | S.B. No. 718 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 6, 2023; March 1, 2023, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
March 13, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, | ||
Nays 0; March 13, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to additional periods of possession of or access to a child | ||
to compensate for denial of court-ordered possession or access. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 157.168, Family Code, is amended to read | ||
as follows: | ||
Sec. 157.168. ADDITIONAL PERIODS OF POSSESSION OR ACCESS. | ||
(a) Unless a party shows good cause why the order should not be | ||
rendered, a [ |
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possession of or access to a child to compensate for the denial of | ||
court-ordered possession or access, including when the denial | ||
resulted from an investigation by the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services that did not result in a finding of abuse or | ||
neglect. | ||
(a-1) The additional periods of possession or access: | ||
(1) must be of the same type and duration of the | ||
possession or access that was denied; | ||
(2) may include weekend, holiday, and summer | ||
possession or access; and | ||
(3) must occur on or before the second anniversary of | ||
the date the court finds that court-ordered possession or access | ||
has been denied. | ||
(b) The person denied possession or access is entitled to | ||
decide the time of the additional possession or access, subject to | ||
the provisions of Subsection (a-1)(1) [ |
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SECTION 2. The enactment of this Act does not constitute a | ||
material and substantial change of circumstances sufficient to | ||
warrant modification of a court order or portion of a decree that | ||
provides for the possession of or access to a child rendered before | ||
the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship pending before a | ||
trial court on or filed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
A suit affecting the parent-child relationship in which a final | ||
order is rendered before the effective date of this Act is governed | ||
by the law in effect on the date the order was rendered, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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