Bill Text: TX HB205 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to procedures for ordering the required participation in services in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-03 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB205 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB205-Comm_Sub.html
85R26427 MM-F | |||
By: Keough, Raymond, et al. | H.B. No. 205 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 205: | |||
By: Rose | C.S.H.B. No. 205 |
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relating to procedures for ordering the required participation in | ||
services in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 264.203, Family Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read | ||
as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), if the court finds | ||
by a preponderance of the evidence that abuse or neglect has | ||
occurred or is likely to occur, the court on request of the | ||
department may order the parent, managing conservator, guardian, or | ||
other member of the subject child's household to: | ||
(1) participate in the services the department | ||
provides or purchases for: | ||
(A) alleviating the effects of the abuse or | ||
neglect that has occurred; or | ||
(B) reducing the reasonable likelihood that the | ||
child may be abused or neglected in the immediate or foreseeable | ||
future; and | ||
(2) permit the child and any siblings of the child to | ||
receive the services. | ||
(e) Before the court may order the participation of a | ||
parent, managing conservator, guardian, or other member of the | ||
subject child's household in services, the court shall advise any | ||
person who is not represented by an attorney of: | ||
(1) the right to be represented by an attorney; and | ||
(2) if the person is indigent and opposes the order to | ||
participate in services, the right to a court-appointed attorney, | ||
subject to the procedures in Section 263.0061(b). | ||
(f) If a parent, managing conservator, guardian, or other | ||
member of the subject child's household is opposed to participating | ||
in services and is not represented by an attorney at the hearing, | ||
the court may not order the person to participate in services until | ||
the person has either retained or been appointed an attorney. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply 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 the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the suit was filed, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |