Bill Text: TX SB539 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the qualifications for an impartial third party in certain civil disputes.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-27 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB539 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB539-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 539 | ||
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| relating to the qualifications for an impartial third party in | ||
| certain civil disputes. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 154.052(b), Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) To qualify for an appointment as an impartial third | ||
| party under this subchapter in a dispute relating to the | ||
| parent-child relationship, a person must complete the training | ||
| required by Subsection (a) and an additional 24 hours of training in | ||
| the fields of family dynamics, child development, and family law, | ||
| including a minimum of four hours of family violence dynamics | ||
| training developed in consultation with a statewide family violence | ||
| advocacy organization. | ||
| SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 154.052, Civil Practice | ||
| and Remedies Code, as amended by this Act, a person who satisfies | ||
| the qualifications to be an impartial third party in effect | ||
| immediately before the effective date of this Act is not required to | ||
| comply with the requirements imposed by that section, as amended by | ||
| this Act, until January 1, 2018, to be qualified to serve as an | ||
| impartial third party under Subchapter C, Chapter 154, Civil | ||
| Practice and Remedies Code, and the former law is continued in | ||
| effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 539 passed the Senate on | ||
| March 22, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 539 passed the House on | ||
| May 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 2, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
