Bill Text: TX HB149 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the appointment of a parenting coordinator or parenting facilitator in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB149 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB149-Comm_Sub.html
  82R1174 KSD-F
 
  By: Raymond H.B. No. 149
 
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the appointment of a parenting coordinator or parenting
 
  facilitator in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.
         
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         
         SECTION 1.  Section 153.609(d), Family Code, is amended to
 
  read as follows:
         
         (d)  If due to hardship the parties are unable to pay the fees
 
  of a parenting coordinator, and a domestic relations office or a
 
  comparable county agency [public employee] is not available under
 
  Subsection (c), the court, if feasible, may appoint a person who
 
  meets the minimum qualifications prescribed by Section 153.610,
 
  including an employee of the court, to act as a parenting
 
  coordinator on a volunteer basis and without compensation.
         
         SECTION 2.  Section 153.6091, Family Code, is amended to
 
  read as follows:
         
         Sec. 153.6091.  COMPENSATION OF PARENTING FACILITATOR.  
 
  Section 153.609 applies to [the compensation of] a parenting
 
  facilitator in the same manner as provided for [the compensation
 
  of] a parenting coordinator, except that a person appointed in
 
  accordance with Section 153.609(d) to act as a parenting
 
  facilitator must meet the minimum qualifications prescribed by
 
  Section 153.6101.
         
         SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies to a
 
  suit affecting the parent-child relationship that is pending in a
 
  trial court on the effective date of this Act or that is filed on or
 
  after the effective date of this Act.
         
         SECTION 4.  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, 2011.
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