Bill Text: TX HB2514 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the appointment of an individual qualified to conduct a child custody evaluation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2514 Detail]

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  By: Martinez (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 2514
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2019;
  May 8, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on State
  Affairs; May 19, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the appointment of an individual qualified to conduct a
  child custody evaluation.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 107.106, Family Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
  follows:
         (a)  This section applies only to a county:
               (1)  with a population of less than 500,000;  
               (2)  that is contiguous to the Gulf of Mexico or a bay
  or inlet opening into the gulf and that borders the United Mexican
  States; or
               (3)  that borders a county described by Subdivision
  (2).
         (a-1)  In a county to which this section applies [with a
  population of less than 500,000], if a court finds that an
  individual who meets the requirements of Section 107.104 is not
  available in the county to conduct a child custody evaluation in a
  timely manner, the court, after notice and hearing or on agreement
  of the parties, may appoint an individual the court determines to be
  otherwise qualified to conduct the evaluation.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
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