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| 1 | 1 | 85R1624 MK-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Wu H.B. No. 699 | |
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| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to the ability of foster parents to intervene in certain | |
| 8 | 8 | suits affecting the parent-child relationship. | |
| 9 | 9 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 10 | 10 | SECTION 1. Section 102.004(b), Family Code, is amended to | |
| 11 | 11 | read as follows: | |
| 12 | 12 | (b) An original suit requesting possessory conservatorship | |
| 13 | 13 | may not be filed by a grandparent or other person. However, the | |
| 14 | 14 | court may grant a grandparent or other person deemed by the court to | |
| 15 | 15 | have had substantial past contact with the child or a foster parent | |
| 16 | 16 | described by Section 102.003(a)(12) leave to intervene in a pending | |
| 17 | 17 | suit filed by a person authorized to do so under this chapter | |
| 18 | 18 | [subchapter] if there is satisfactory proof to the court that | |
| 19 | 19 | appointment of a parent as a sole managing conservator or both | |
| 20 | 20 | parents as joint managing conservators would significantly impair | |
| 21 | 21 | the child's physical health or emotional development. | |
| 22 | 22 | SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | |
| 23 | 23 | an original suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed on | |
| 24 | 24 | or after the effective date of this Act. An original suit affecting | |
| 25 | 25 | the parent-child relationship filed before the effective date of | |
| 26 | 26 | this Act is subject to the law in effect at the time the suit was | |
| 27 | 27 | filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | |
| 28 | 28 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |