Bill Text: TX HB1734 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1734

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of court files in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship in which continuing, exclusive jurisdiction is transferred.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-06 - Filed [HB1734 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB1734-Introduced.html

	89R3001 PRL-F

	By: Orr	H.B. No. 1734



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the transfer of court files in a suit affecting the
	parent-child relationship in which continuing, exclusive
	jurisdiction is transferred.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 155.207(a), Family Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(a) Not later than the 10th working day after the date an
	order of transfer is signed, the clerk of the court transferring a
	proceeding shall send, using the electronic filing system
	established under Section 72.031, Government Code, to the proper
	court to which transfer is being made:
	(1) a transfer certificate and index of transferred
	documents;
	(2) a copy of each final order;
	(3) a copy of the order of transfer signed by the
	transferring court;
	(4) a copy of the pleadings in the pending proceeding
	and any other document specifically requested by a party [~~original~~
	~~papers filed in the transferring court~~];
	(5) a copy of the transfer certificate and index of
	transferred documents from each previous transfer; and
	(6) a bill of any costs that have accrued in the
	transferring court.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
	155.207(a), Family Code, applies only to a suit affecting the
	parent-child relationship in which an order transferring
	continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to another court is rendered on
	or after the effective date of this Act. A suit affecting the
	parent-child relationship in which an order transferring
	continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to another court 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.