Bill Text: TX HB969 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to local regulation to enforce child custody orders; authorizing a civil penalty.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB969 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB969-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 969 | ||
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| relating to local regulation to enforce child custody orders; | ||
| authorizing a civil penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 157, Family Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subchapter K to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER K. LOCAL REGULATION AND ENFORCEMENT | ||
| Sec. 157.551. CIVIL PENALTY FOR INTERFERENCE WITH CHILD | ||
| CUSTODY ORDER. A municipality or county in this state may adopt an | ||
| ordinance or order that imposes a civil penalty of not more than | ||
| $500 for engaging in conduct described by Section 25.03, Penal | ||
| Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 969 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 3, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 969 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
