86R880 JSC-F
By: Hughes S.B. No. 1373
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to loss of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of a court
in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 155.004(a), Family Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A court of this state loses its continuing, exclusive
jurisdiction to modify its order if:
(1) an order of adoption is rendered by another [after
the] court in an original suit filed as described by Section
103.001(b) [acquires continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of the
suit];
(2) the parents of the child have remarried each other
after the dissolution of a previous marriage between them and file a
suit for the dissolution of their subsequent marriage combined with
a suit affecting the parent-child relationship as if there had not
been a prior court with continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over the
child; or
(3) another court assumed jurisdiction over a suit and
rendered a final order based on incorrect information received from
the vital statistics unit that there was no court of continuing,
exclusive jurisdiction.
SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
only to an order of adoption rendered on or after the effective date
of this Act.
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) of this section, an
order of adoption rendered in an original suit filed as described by
Section 103.001(b), Family Code, on or after September 1, 2015, but
before the effective date of this Act by a court that would have
exclusive jurisdiction to render the order as a result of a court of
this state losing its continuing, exclusive jurisdiction under
Section 155.004(a), Family Code, as amended by this Act, is a final
order and is not subject to an appeal on that basis.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.