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Senate Bill 352 |
Senate Author: West |
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Effective: 9-1-13 |
House Sponsor: Gonzalez, Naomi |
Senate Bill 352 amends the Family Code to require the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), in a suit by a governmental entity to protect the health and safety of a child, to ensure that a parent who is otherwise entitled to possession of a child in the temporary conservatorship of DFPS and for whom the goal is parent-child reunification has an opportunity to visit the child not later than the third day after the date DFPS is named temporary managing conservator, except under certain conditions. The bill requires a temporary visitation schedule for the child's visits with each parent to be developed in collaboration with each parent before an adversary hearing in such a suit and a visitation plan to be developed not later than the 30th day after the date DFPS is named temporary managing conservator of the child. The bill provides for the amendment, review, modification, and implementation of a visitation plan by the court. The bill requires the court, in each permanency hearing in a review of the placement of a child under DFPS care, to review any visitation plan or amended plan and render any orders for visitation the court determines necessary.
Senate Bill 352 reenacts and amends a Government Code provision to entitle DFPS to obtain from the Department of Public Safety (DPS) criminal history record information maintained by DPS that relates to a person who volunteers to supervise visitation under provisions relating to service plans and visitation plans for a child under DFPS care.