Bill Text: TX HB4062 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 4062

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Bill Title: Relating to creating an audiovisual recording of an interview of a child by a child custody evaluator in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4062 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4062-Introduced.html

	88R11317 AMF-D

	By: Harris of Anderson	H.B. No. 4062



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the recording of an interview of a child by a child
	custody evaluator in certain suits affecting the parent-child
	relationship.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 107.112, Family Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
	(b-1) A child custody evaluator shall create an audio or
	video recording of each interview the evaluator conducts with a
	child who is the subject of a suit seeking conservatorship of,
	possession of, or access to the child unless the interview is
	conducted in the presence of all parties to the suit.
	SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
	an interview conducted by a child custody evaluator in a suit
	affecting the parent-child relationship on or after the effective
	date of this Act. An interview conducted before the effective date
	of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the
	interview was conducted, and the former law is continued in effect
	for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.