| TX | SB222 | Pass | Relating to paid leave by certain state employees for the birth or adoption of a child. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB891 | Pass | Relating to the use of expert testimony in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB718 | Pass | Relating to additional periods of possession of or access to a child to compensate for denial of court-ordered possession or access. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB719 | Pass | Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of property owned by a charitable organization that provides services related to the placement of a child in a foster or adoptive home. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18 Effective on 1/1/24 |
| TX | SB24 | Pass | Relating to the powers and duties of the Health and Human Services Commission and the transfer to the commission of certain powers and duties from the Department of Family and Protective Services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB2277 | Veto | Relating to special appointments in suits affecting the parent-child relationship. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18 Vetoed by the Governor |
| TX | HB461 | Pass | Relating to a waiver of the requirement for the performance of an adoption evaluation in certain suits for adoption. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB969 | Pass | Relating to local regulation to enforce child custody orders; authorizing a civil penalty. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB4062 | Pass | Relating to creating an audiovisual recording of an interview of a child by a child custody evaluator in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB968 | Pass | Relating to procedures in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB1087 | Pass | Relating to the requirements for certain petitions and orders in suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services and the contents of a petition in certain suits affecting the parent-child relati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB1361 | Pass | Relating to the designation of liaison officers to assist certain students at public institutions of higher education who are parents. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12 Effective immediately |
| TX | HB2658 | Pass | Relating to grounds for the involuntary termination of the parent-child relationship. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB2969 | Pass | Relating to prohibiting a maximum age or age differential for prospective adoptive parents. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-11 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB4765 | Pass | Relating to inheritance rights of adoptive parents. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-11 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB2671 | Pass | Relating to the postponement of a hearing for a temporary order in certain family law cases referred to mediation. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-10 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB3025 | Pass | Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offenses of aggravated kidnapping, kidnapping, and interference with child custody. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-10 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB4170 | Pass | Relating to enforcement actions taken against a child-care or child-placing agency administrator's license. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-10 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB730 | Pass | Relating to policies and procedures regarding certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship, investigations by the Department of Family and Protective Services, and parental child safety placements. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB2109 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the appointment of a guardian ad litem in certain suits filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24 Placed on intent calendar |
| TX | SB869 | Pass | Relating to suits affecting the parent-child relationship, including the payment and enforcement of support ordered in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-23 Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB1864 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to certain placements for children in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-23 Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | SB2548 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the procedures for the removal of certain children in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-23 Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | SB2591 | Engross
Sine Die | 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. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-23 Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB2893 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the procedures for transferring certain cases and proceedings between courts. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-22 Not again placed on intent calendar |
| TX | SB1269 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to admissibility and disclosure of certain evidence in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-22 Postponed 4/21/24 10:00 AM |
| TX | HB3315 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to a school district's grievance procedure regarding complaints concerning violation of parental rights. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18 To Senate Education Committee |
| TX | HB1120 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to orders for possession of and access to a child in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16 To Senate State Affairs Committee |
| TX | SB885 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the grounds for terminating and reinstating a person's parental rights and the adoption of certain children. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16 To House Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Committee |
| TX | HB3380 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the Uniform Unregulated Child Custody Transfer Act; creating criminal offenses. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16 To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | HB361 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the placement on community supervision, including deferred adjudication community supervision, of a defendant who is the primary caretaker of a child. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15 Received from the House |
| TX | SB2009 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to access to certain information in the adoption process. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15 To House Human Services Committee |
| TX | HB1529 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to procedures in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12 To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | HB1546 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the recovery of fees, court costs, and expenses in family law proceedings. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11 To Senate Jurisprudence Committee |
| TX | HB2439 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the individuals to whom notice and information must be provided after the Department of Family and Protective Services or another agency takes possession of a child. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11 Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB2541 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to policies and procedures regarding children placed by the Department of Family and Protective Services in a residential treatment center or program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11 To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | HB2716 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to neglect of a child and the grounds for termination of the parent-child relationship and possession of a child by the Department of Family and Protective Services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11 To Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
| TX | HB2794 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the appointment of a guardian ad litem in certain suits filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11 To Senate Jurisprudence Committee |
| TX | HB2948 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the modification of a possession order and temporary possession of a child when a conservator of the child is incapacitated. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11 To Senate Jurisprudence Committee |
| TX | HB3807 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the establishment of a family health aide program; requiring an occupational license. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11 Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB4138 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the establishment of the Texas Adoption Assistance Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11 Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB4953 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the procedures for the removal of certain children in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11 Postponed 6/1/23 10:00 AM |
| TX | HB4905 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the definition of child neglect and to the appointment of the Department of Family and Protective Services and a child's parent or legal guardian as joint managing conservators of the child. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11 Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB5103 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the rights and duties of each parent that must be specified in certain agreed parenting plans and orders for the joint managing conservatorship of a child. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11 To Senate Jurisprudence Committee |
| TX | HB2822 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to a study on the housing needs of youth transitioning out of foster care or the juvenile justice system. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-10 Received from the House |
| TX | SB1557 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to providing for an election by the parent of a student who was victimized by a public school employee to transfer the student to another public school campus or receive funding for the student to attend private school. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-10 To House Public Education Committee |
| TX | HB3446 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to court-ordered financial support by parents of an adult with a medically determinable disability. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-10 To Senate State Affairs Committee |
| TX | HB120 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the terms and conditions of a standard possession order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09 To Senate State Affairs Committee |
| TX | SB1031 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to studies or surveys on children's sexual behavior conducted at or by a public primary or secondary school or by a public or private institution of higher education or another person; creating criminal offenses; imposing civil penalties. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-06 To House Youth Health & Safety, Select Committee |
| TX | HCR81 | Intro
Sine Die | Affirming that fatherhood is essential to the development of all children. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-06 Committee report sent to Calendars |