Bill Text: TX SB267 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to certain rights of the sole managing conservator of a child in relation to the child's passport.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-07 - Referred to State Affairs [SB267 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB267-Introduced.html
  86R883 KSD-F
 
  By: Rodríguez S.B. No. 267
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to certain rights of the sole managing conservator of a
  child in relation to the child's passport.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 153.132, Family Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
         Sec. 153.132.  RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF PARENT APPOINTED SOLE
  MANAGING CONSERVATOR. Unless limited by court order, a parent
  appointed as sole managing conservator of a child has the rights and
  duties provided by Subchapter B and the following exclusive rights:
               (1)  the right to designate the primary residence of
  the child;
               (2)  the right to consent to medical, dental, and
  surgical treatment involving invasive procedures;
               (3)  the right to consent to psychiatric and
  psychological treatment;
               (4)  the right to receive and give receipt for periodic
  payments for the support of the child and to hold or disburse these
  funds for the benefit of the child;
               (5)  the right to represent the child in legal action
  and to make other decisions of substantial legal significance
  concerning the child;
               (6)  the right to consent to marriage and to enlistment
  in the armed forces of the United States;
               (7)  the right to make decisions concerning the child's
  education;
               (8)  the right to the services and earnings of the
  child; [and]
               (9)  except when a guardian of the child's estate or a
  guardian or attorney ad litem has been appointed for the child, the
  right to act as an agent of the child in relation to the child's
  estate if the child's action is required by a state, the United
  States, or a foreign government; and
               (10)  the right to:
                     (A)  apply for a passport for the child;
                     (B)  renew the child's passport; and
                     (C)  maintain possession of the child's passport.
         SECTION 2.  Section 153.371, Family Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
         Sec. 153.371.  RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF NONPARENT APPOINTED AS
  SOLE MANAGING CONSERVATOR. Unless limited by court order or other
  provisions of this chapter, a nonparent, a licensed child-placing
  agency, or the Department of Family and Protective Services
  appointed as a managing conservator of the child has the following
  rights and duties:
               (1)  the right to have physical possession and to
  direct the moral and religious training of the child;
               (2)  the duty of care, control, protection, and
  reasonable discipline of the child;
               (3)  the duty to provide the child with clothing, food,
  shelter, education, and medical, psychological, and dental care;
               (4)  the right to consent for the child to medical,
  psychiatric, psychological, dental, and surgical treatment and to
  have access to the child's medical records;
               (5)  the right to receive and give receipt for payments
  for the support of the child and to hold or disburse funds for the
  benefit of the child;
               (6)  the right to the services and earnings of the
  child;
               (7)  the right to consent to marriage and to enlistment
  in the armed forces of the United States;
               (8)  the right to represent the child in legal action
  and to make other decisions of substantial legal significance
  concerning the child;
               (9)  except when a guardian of the child's estate or a
  guardian or attorney ad litem has been appointed for the child, the
  right to act as an agent of the child in relation to the child's
  estate if the child's action is required by a state, the United
  States, or a foreign government;
               (10)  the right to designate the primary residence of
  the child and to make decisions regarding the child's education;
  [and]
               (11)  if the parent-child relationship has been
  terminated with respect to the parents, or only living parent, or if
  there is no living parent, the right to consent to the adoption of
  the child and to make any other decision concerning the child that a
  parent could make; and
               (12)  the right to:
                     (A)  apply for a passport for the child;
                     (B)  renew the child's passport; and
                     (C)  maintain possession of the child's passport.
         SECTION 3.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  a suit affecting the parent-child relationship that is pending in a
  trial court on or filed on or after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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