Bill Text: TX HB1319 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the time for rendering a final order in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship involving the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-15 - Left pending in committee [HB1319 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1319-Introduced.html
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By: Noble | H.B. No. 1319 |
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relating to the time for rendering a final order in certain suits | ||
affecting the parent-child relationship involving the Department | ||
of Family and Protective Services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 263, Family Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 263.4011 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 263.4011. RENDERING FINAL ORDER; EXTENSION. (a) On | ||
timely commencement of the trial on the merits under Section | ||
263.401, the court shall render a final order not later than the | ||
90th day after the date the trial commences. | ||
(b) The 90-day period for rendering a final order under | ||
Subsection (a) is not tolled for any recess during the trial. | ||
(c) If the court finds that extraordinary circumstances | ||
necessitate extending the 90-day period under Subsection (a), the | ||
court may grant one extension of that date for not longer than 30 | ||
days. The court shall render a written order: | ||
(1) specifying the grounds on which the extension is | ||
granted; and | ||
(2) requiring a final order to be rendered not later | ||
than the 30th day after the date the extension is granted. | ||
(d) A party may file a mandamus proceeding if the court | ||
fails to render a final order within the time required by this | ||
section. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 263.4011, Family Code, as added 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 that date is governed by | ||
the law in effect on the date the suit was filed, and that law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |