Bill Text: TX HB2924 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to procedures in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB2924 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2924-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2924 |
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relating to procedures in certain suits affecting the parent-child | ||
relationship. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 161.001, Family Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (d-1) to read as follows: | ||
(d-1) The court may not order termination under Subsection | ||
(b)(1)(M) unless the petition for the termination of the | ||
parent-child relationship is filed not later than the first | ||
anniversary of the date the department or an equivalent agency in | ||
another state was granted managing conservatorship of a child in | ||
the case that resulted in the termination of the parent-child | ||
relationship with respect to that child based on a finding that the | ||
parent's conduct violated Subsection (b)(1)(D) or (E) or | ||
substantially equivalent provisions of the law of another state. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 262.2015(b), Family Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) The court may find under Subsection (a) that a parent | ||
has subjected the child to aggravated circumstances if: | ||
(1) the parent abandoned the child without | ||
identification or a means for identifying the child; | ||
(2) the child or another child of the parent is a | ||
victim of serious bodily injury or sexual abuse inflicted by the | ||
parent or by another person with the parent's consent; | ||
(3) the parent has engaged in conduct against the | ||
child or another child of the parent that would constitute an | ||
offense under the following provisions of the Penal Code: | ||
(A) Section 19.02 (murder); | ||
(B) Section 19.03 (capital murder); | ||
(C) Section 19.04 (manslaughter); | ||
(D) Section 21.11 (indecency with a child); | ||
(E) Section 22.011 (sexual assault); | ||
(F) Section 22.02 (aggravated assault); | ||
(G) Section 22.021 (aggravated sexual assault); | ||
(H) Section 22.04 (injury to a child, elderly | ||
individual, or disabled individual); | ||
(I) Section 22.041 (abandoning or endangering | ||
child); | ||
(J) Section 25.02 (prohibited sexual conduct); | ||
(K) Section 43.25 (sexual performance by a | ||
child); | ||
(L) Section 43.26 (possession or promotion of | ||
child pornography); | ||
(M) Section 21.02 (continuous sexual abuse of | ||
young child or children); | ||
(N) Section 43.05(a)(2) (compelling | ||
prostitution); or | ||
(O) Section 20A.02(a)(7) or (8) (trafficking of | ||
persons); | ||
(4) the parent voluntarily left the child alone or in | ||
the possession of another person not the parent of the child for at | ||
least six months without expressing an intent to return and without | ||
providing adequate support for the child; | ||
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(A) the murder of another child of the parent and | ||
the offense would have been an offense under 18 U.S.C. Section | ||
1111(a) if the offense had occurred in the special maritime or | ||
territorial jurisdiction of the United States; | ||
(B) the voluntary manslaughter of another child | ||
of the parent and the offense would have been an offense under 18 | ||
U.S.C. Section 1112(a) if the offense had occurred in the special | ||
maritime or territorial jurisdiction of the United States; | ||
(C) aiding or abetting, attempting, conspiring, | ||
or soliciting an offense under Paragraph (A) or (B); or | ||
(D) the felony assault of the child or another | ||
child of the parent that resulted in serious bodily injury to the | ||
child or another child of the parent; or | ||
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federal law to register with a sex offender registry. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a court order for the involuntary termination of the | ||
parent-child relationship rendered on or after the effective date | ||
of this Act. A court order rendered before the effective date of | ||
this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the order was | ||
rendered, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2924 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
2021, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 14, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 2924 on May 28, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 126, Nays 19, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2924 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 22, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |