By: Granoff H.B. No. 1730 73R3684 SMH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the involuntary termination of the parent-child 1-3 relationship. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 15, Family Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Section 15.025 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 15.025. INVOLUNTARY TERMINATION: BEHAVIOR OF PARENT 1-8 FOLLOWING PLACEMENT OF CHILD. A petition by the Department of 1-9 Protective and Regulatory Services requesting termination of the 1-10 parent-child relationship with respect to a parent who is not the 1-11 petitioner may be granted if the court finds that: 1-12 (1) the department has been the permanent managing 1-13 conservator of the child for at least 12 months preceding the 1-14 filing of the petition; 1-15 (2) the child has been placed by the department in 1-16 foster home care, group home care, or institutional care; 1-17 (3) after the child was placed by the department in 1-18 foster home care, group home care, or institutional care, the 1-19 parent: 1-20 (A) failed to: 1-21 (i) maintain contact with the child, other 1-22 than incidental contact; or 1-23 (ii) provide for or substantially plan for 1-24 the future of the child; or 2-1 (B) neglected, abused, or failed to care for 2-2 another child of the parent; and 2-3 (4) the termination is in the best interest of the 2-4 child. 2-5 SECTION 2. This Act applies to a petition by the Department 2-6 of Protective and Regulatory Services requesting termination of the 2-7 parent-child relationship if the department has been the permanent 2-8 managing conservator of the child for at least 12 months preceding 2-9 the filing of the petition, regardless of whether the department 2-10 was appointed conservator before or is appointed conservator on or 2-11 after the effective date of this Act. 2-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.