Bill Text: TX SB2749 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the definition of abuse or neglect of a child.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-03 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB2749 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB2749-Introduced.html
| By: Hall | S.B. No. 2749 | |
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| relating to the definition of abuse or neglect of a child. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 261, Family Code is | ||
| amended by adding Section 261.0011 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 261.0011. EXCLUSIONS. In this chapter, "abuse" and | ||
| "neglect," as defined in Sec. 261.001, do not include the refusal of | ||
| the child's parent, legal guardian, or other person responsible for | ||
| a child's care, custody, or welfare to: | ||
| (a) affirm the child's expressed sexual orientation or | ||
| gender identity; or | ||
| (b) address the child according to the child's preferred | ||
| name or pronoun(s), regardless of whether the child has legally | ||
| changed their name. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
