Bill Text: TX HB2047 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to limiting possession of and access to a child by certain parents.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-05 - Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues [HB2047 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2047-Introduced.html
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| By: Ramos | H.B. No. 2047 | |
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| relating to limiting possession of and access to a child by certain | ||
| parents. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 153.004, Family Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (d-2) and (d-3) to read as follows: | ||
| (d-2) The court may not appoint a child's parent as sole | ||
| managing conservator or joint managing conservator if the parent | ||
| has been convicted of an offense under Section 21.02, 21.11, | ||
| 22.011, 22.021, or 25.02, Penal Code, against a victim who was | ||
| younger than 18 years of age at the time of the offense. | ||
| (d-3) The court may not allow a parent described by | ||
| Subsection (d-2) to have unsupervised visitation with the child if | ||
| the parent committed the offense described by that subsection | ||
| during the five-year period preceding the filing of the suit or | ||
| during the pendency of the suit. If the parent committed the | ||
| offense described by Subsection (d-2) five or more years before the | ||
| filing of the suit, the court may allow the parent to have | ||
| unsupervised visitation with the child only if the court determines | ||
| that the visitation would be in the best interest of the child. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a | ||
| suit affecting the parent-child relationship pending before a trial | ||
| court or filed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. The enactment of this Act constitutes a material | ||
| and substantial change of circumstances sufficient to warrant | ||
| modification of a court order or portion of a decree that provides | ||
| for conservatorship or possession of or access to a child rendered | ||
| before the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
