Bill Text: TX SB539 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the qualifications for an impartial third party in certain civil disputes.
Spectrum: 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. | ||
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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. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |