By:  Combs                                            H.B. No. 2034
       73R6327 JBN-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the rights, privileges, duties, and powers of a
    1-3  conservator of a child.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 14.02(b), Family Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        (b)  A managing conservator who is not the parent of the
    1-8  child has the following rights, privileges, duties, and powers,
    1-9  subject to the rights, privileges, duties, and powers of a
   1-10  possessory conservator as provided in Section 14.04 of this code
   1-11  and to any limitation imposed by court order in allowing access to
   1-12  the child:
   1-13              (1)  the right to have physical possession, to direct
   1-14  the moral and religious training, and to establish the legal
   1-15  domicile of the child;
   1-16              (2)  the duty of care, control, protection, and
   1-17  reasonable discipline of the child;
   1-18              (3)  the duty to provide the child with clothing, food,
   1-19  shelter, and education;
   1-20              (4)  the right to the services and earnings of the
   1-21  child;
   1-22              (5)  the power to consent to marriage, to enlistment in
   1-23  the armed forces of the United States, and to medical, psychiatric,
   1-24  psychological, and surgical treatment;
    2-1              (6)  the power to represent the child in legal action
    2-2  and to make other decisions of substantial legal significance
    2-3  concerning the child including, except when a guardian of the
    2-4  child's estate or a guardian or attorney ad litem has been
    2-5  appointed for the child, a power as an agent of the child to act in
    2-6  relation to the child's estate if the child's action is required by
    2-7  a state, the United States, or a foreign government;
    2-8              (7)  the power to receive and give receipt for periodic
    2-9  payments for the support of the child and to hold or disburse these
   2-10  funds for the benefit of the child; and
   2-11              (8)  if the parent-child relationship has been
   2-12  terminated with respect to the parents, or only living parent, or
   2-13  if there is no living parent, the power to consent to the adoption
   2-14  of the child and to make any other decision concerning the child
   2-15  that a parent could make.
   2-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.