83R18488 KKA-D
By: Rodriguez of Bexar H.B. No. 2774
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2774:
By: Farrar C.S.H.B. No. 2774
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to intervention by a foster parent in a suit affecting the
parent-child relationship.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 102, Family Code, is amended by adding
Section 102.0031 to read as follows:
Sec. 102.0031. INTERVENTION BY FOSTER PARENT. A court may
not permit a foster parent of a child placed in the foster parent's
home by the Department of Family and Protective Services leave to
intervene in a pending suit that involves the child unless the
parent-child relationship between the child and every living parent
of the child has been finally terminated for at least 90 days.
SECTION 2. Section 102.0031, Family Code, as added by this
Act, applies only to a motion to intervene pending on or filed on or
after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.