Bill Text: TX HB610 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to procedures for presenting certain evidence at placement review hearings in suits affecting the parent-child relationship involving the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB610 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB610-Introduced.html
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| By: Leach | H.B. No. 610 | |
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| relating to procedures for presenting certain evidence at placement | ||
| review hearings in suits affecting the parent-child relationship | ||
| involving the Department of Family and Protective Services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 263.0021, Family Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) Notice of a hearing under this chapter provided to an | ||
| individual listed under Subsection (b)(2) must state that the | ||
| individual may, but is not required to, present evidence and be | ||
| heard at the hearing. | ||
| (f) In a hearing under this chapter, the court shall call an | ||
| individual listed under Subsection (b)(2) and the individual, at | ||
| the individual's discretion, may appear at the hearing and present | ||
| evidence and be heard regardless of whether either party calls the | ||
| individual to testify. If the individual testifies at the hearing, | ||
| the individual may be cross-examined by either party. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply to a | ||
| suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act. A suit affecting the parent-child | ||
| relationship filed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law in effect on the date the suit was filed, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
