By: Goodman H.B. No. 1140
73R3095 MJW-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authority of a possessory conservator to consent to
1-3 medical treatment of a child.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 14.04(a), Family Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (a) A possessory conservator has the following rights,
1-8 privileges, duties, and powers during the period of possession,
1-9 subject to any limitations expressed in the decree:
1-10 (1) the duty of care, control, protection, and
1-11 reasonable discipline of the child;
1-12 (2) the duty to provide the child with clothing, food,
1-13 and shelter; and
1-14 (3) the power to consent to medical <and surgical>
1-15 treatment at any time during the period of possession and to
1-16 surgical treatment during an emergency involving an immediate
1-17 danger to the health and safety of the child.
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.