Bill Text: TX HB3647 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to placing a child in the possessory conservatorship of the child's parents in certain situations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-22 - Referred to Human Services [HB3647 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3647-Introduced.html
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By: White | H.B. No. 3647 |
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relating to placing a child in the possessory conservatorship of | ||
the child's parents in certain situations. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 263, Family Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 263.504 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 263.504. RETURNING CHILD TO PARENT. (a) At each | ||
placement review hearing after the second anniversary of the date | ||
the court rendered the final order naming the department or another | ||
person as the child's managing conservator without terminating | ||
parental rights, the department shall review the child's placement | ||
to determine whether the child could be returned to the child's | ||
parent if the parent was named possessory conservator for the child | ||
in the final order. | ||
(b) The department may recommend reunification with the | ||
child's parent if the department finds: | ||
(1) the parent of the child has remedied the condition | ||
or conditions that led to removal of the child; | ||
(2) the parent of the child is willing and able to care | ||
for the child; | ||
(3) the best interest of the child will be served by | ||
placing the child with the child's parent; | ||
(4) the child's preference is to reside with the | ||
child's parent; and | ||
(5) the child does not have other options for | ||
permanency. | ||
(c) The court may return the child to the child's parent if | ||
the court finds it is in the best interest of the child. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a | ||
placement review hearing held on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act regardless of the date on which the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services is named the child's managing conservator. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |