Bill Text: TX HB1781 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to access by a sibling of a child separated from the sibling due to an action by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1781 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1781-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to access by a sibling of a child separated from the sibling due to an action by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1781 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1781-Comm_Sub.html
By: Bonnen of Galveston, Miles, Sheets | H.B. No. 1781 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Taylor of Galveston) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 2015; | ||
May 4, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 21, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 21, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE VOTE | ||
YeaNayAbsentPNV | ||
HuffmanX | ||
EllisX | ||
BirdwellX | ||
CreightonX | ||
EstesX | ||
FraserX | ||
NelsonX | ||
SchwertnerX | ||
ZaffiriniX | ||
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relating to access by a sibling of a child separated from the | ||
sibling due to an action by the Department of Family and Protective | ||
Services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 102.0045, Family Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) The sibling of a child who is separated from the | ||
sibling as the result of an action by the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services may file an original suit as provided by | ||
Section 153.551 requesting access to the child, regardless of the | ||
age of the sibling. A court shall expedite a suit filed under this | ||
subsection. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
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