By: Goodman H.B. No. 757
73R4160 JBN-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the parties entitled to citation in a suit affecting
1-3 the parent-child relationship.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 11.09(a) and (b), Family Code, are
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) Except as provided in Subsection (b) of this section,
1-8 the following persons are entitled to service of citation on the
1-9 filing of a petition in a suit affecting the parent-child
1-10 relationship:
1-11 (1) the managing conservator, if any;
1-12 (2) possessory conservators, if any;
1-13 (3) persons, if any, having access to the child under
1-14 an order of the court;
1-15 (4) persons, if any, required by law or by order of a
1-16 court to provide for the support of a child;
1-17 (5) the guardian of the person of the child, if any;
1-18 (6) the guardian of the estate of the child, if any;
1-19 (7) each parent as to whom the parent-child
1-20 relationship has not been terminated or process has not been waived
1-21 under Section 15.03(c)(2) of this code;
1-22 (8) the alleged father or probable father, unless
1-23 there is attached to the petition an affidavit of waiver of
1-24 interest in a child executed by the alleged father or probable
2-1 father as provided in Section 15.041 of this code<, or unless the
2-2 petition states that the identity of the father is unknown>; and
2-3 (9) the attorney general, if the petition seeks to
2-4 establish, modify, or enforce any support right assigned to the
2-5 attorney general under Chapter 76, Human Resources Code.
2-6 (b) Service of citation may be given to any other person who
2-7 has or who may assert an interest in the child and shall <may> be
2-8 given to an <the> unknown father of a child who has no presumed
2-9 father.
2-10 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.