89R3001 PRL-F
By: Orr, Manuel, Bowers, et al. H.B. No. 1734
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the transfer of court files in a suit affecting the
parent-child relationship in which continuing, exclusive
jurisdiction is transferred.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 155.207(a), Family Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) Not later than the 10th working day after the date an
order of transfer is signed, the clerk of the court transferring a
proceeding shall send, using the electronic filing system
established under Section 72.031, Government Code, to the proper
court to which transfer is being made:
(1) a transfer certificate and index of transferred
documents;
(2) a copy of each final order;
(3) a copy of the order of transfer signed by the
transferring court;
(4) a copy of the pleadings in the pending proceeding
and any other document specifically requested by a party [original
papers filed in the transferring court];
(5) a copy of the transfer certificate and index of
transferred documents from each previous transfer; and
(6) a bill of any costs that have accrued in the
transferring court.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
155.207(a), Family Code, applies only to a suit affecting the
parent-child relationship in which an order transferring
continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to another court is rendered on
or after the effective date of this Act. A suit affecting the
parent-child relationship in which an order transferring
continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to another court is rendered
before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
effect on the date the order was rendered, and the former law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.