Bill Text: TX HB2773 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to intervention by foster parents in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-18 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB2773 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2773-Introduced.html
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By: Rodriguez of Bexar | H.B. No. 2773 |
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relating to intervention by foster parents in certain suits | ||
affecting the parent-child relationship. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 102.004, Family Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) An original suit requesting possessory conservatorship | ||
may not be filed by a grandparent or other person. However, the | ||
court, subject to Subsection (b-1), may grant a grandparent or | ||
other person deemed by the court to have had substantial past | ||
contact with the child leave to intervene in a pending suit filed by | ||
a person authorized to do so under this chapter [ |
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there is satisfactory proof to the court that appointment of a | ||
parent as a sole managing conservator or both parents as joint | ||
managing conservators would significantly impair the child's | ||
physical health or emotional development. | ||
(b-1) A court may not grant a foster parent of a child placed | ||
in the foster parent's home by the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services leave to intervene in a pending suit involving | ||
the child, as authorized by Subsection (b), unless the child has | ||
been in the foster parent's home for at least 12 months. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act to Section | ||
102.004, Family Code, apply only to a motion to intervene pending on | ||
or filed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |