By: Goodman H.B. No. 793
73R3324 JMM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to persons who may bring an original suit affecting the
1-3 parent-child relationship.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11.03(b), Family Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (b) An original suit affecting the parent-child relationship
1-8 seeking managing conservatorship may be brought by a grandparent or
1-9 by any other person deemed by the court to have had substantial
1-10 past contact with the child sufficient to warrant standing to do
1-11 so, if there is satisfactory proof to the court that:
1-12 (1) the order sought is necessary because the child's
1-13 present environment may endanger the child's physical health or
1-14 significantly impair the child's emotional development <child's
1-15 environment with the parent or parents, the managing conservator,
1-16 or the custodian presents a serious and immediate question
1-17 concerning the welfare of the child>; or
1-18 (2) both parents, the surviving parent, or the
1-19 managing conservator or custodian either filed the petition or
1-20 consented to the suit.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a suit filed on or after
1-22 the effective date of this Act. A suit filed before that date is
1-23 governed by the law in effect on the date the suit was filed, and
1-24 the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.