Bill Text: TX HB2895 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the payment of certain attorney ad litem fees in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed by a governmental entity.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-16 - Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues [HB2895 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2895-Introduced.html
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| By: King of Uvalde | H.B. No. 2895 | |
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| relating to the payment of certain attorney ad litem fees in a suit | ||
| affecting the parent-child relationship filed by a governmental | ||
| entity. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 107.015(c), Family Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (c) If indigency of the parents is shown, an attorney ad | ||
| litem appointed to represent a child or parent in a suit filed by a | ||
| governmental entity shall be paid from the general funds of the | ||
| county or by the governmental entity that filed the suit in an | ||
| amount according to the fee schedule that applies to an attorney | ||
| appointed to represent a child in a suit under Title 3 as provided | ||
| by Chapter 51. The court may not award attorney ad litem fees under | ||
| this chapter against the state, a state agency, or a political | ||
| subdivision of the state except as provided by this subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
