By: Miller, Frank (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) H.B. No. 1780
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2019;
May 8, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Health &
Human Services; May 20, 2019, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 20, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the mandatory dismissal date of certain suits affecting
the parent-child relationship involving the Department of Family
and Protective Services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 263.401, Family Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (b-2) to read as follows:
(b-2) When considering under Subsection (b) whether to find
that extraordinary circumstances necessitate the child remaining
in the temporary managing conservatorship of the department for a
case in which the court orders a parent to complete a substance
abuse treatment program, the court shall consider whether the
parent made a good faith effort to successfully complete the
program.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
a suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed on or after
the effective date of this Act. A suit affecting the parent-child
relationship filed before that date is governed by the law in effect
on the date the suit was filed, and that law is continued in effect
for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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