Bill Text: TX HB2845 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the persons entitled to intervene in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-18 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB2845 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2845-Introduced.html

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83R8922 JSL-D
By: Hernandez Luna H.B. No. 2845

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the persons entitled to intervene in certain suits
affecting the parent-child relationship.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 102.005, Family Code, is amended to read
as follows:
Sec. 102.005. STANDING TO REQUEST TERMINATION AND ADOPTION.
(a) An original suit requesting only an adoption or for termination
of the parent-child relationship joined with a petition for
adoption may be filed by:
(1) a stepparent of the child;
(2) an adult who, as the result of a placement for
adoption, has had actual possession and control of the child at any
time during the 30-day period preceding the filing of the petition;
(3) an adult who has had actual possession and control
of the child for not less than two months during the three-month
period preceding the filing of the petition;
(4) an adult who has adopted, or is the foster parent
of and has petitioned to adopt, a sibling of the child; or
(5) another adult whom the court determines to have
had substantial past contact with the child sufficient to warrant
standing to do so.
(b) The court shall grant a person who has standing to file
an original suit with respect to a child under Subsection (a)(2)
leave to intervene in a suit filed by an authorized agency if the
person's motion to intervene includes a petition for adoption of
the child.
SECTION 2. Section 102.005, Family Code, as amended by this
Act, applies to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship that
is pending in a trial court on the effective date of this Act or
filed on or after that date.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.