By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1260 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the involuntary termination of the parent-child 1-2 relationship. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 15, Family Code, is amended by adding 1-5 Section 15.025 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 15.025. INVOLUNTARY TERMINATION; FAILURE TO CARE FOR 1-7 CHILD. A petition by the Department of Protective and Regulatory 1-8 Services requesting termination of the parent-child relationship 1-9 with respect to a parent who is not the petitioner may be granted 1-10 if the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that: 1-11 (1) the department has been the temporary or permanent 1-12 managing conservator of the child for one year preceding the filing 1-13 of the petition or there is a past history of court determinations 1-14 of abuse or neglect by the parent which led to one or more foster 1-15 care placements of the child; and 1-16 (2)(A) the parent has failed substantially, without 1-17 good cause, to comply with court orders designed to require the 1-18 parent to provide a safe environment for the child in the parent's 1-19 home; or 1-20 (B) the parent has failed substantially, without 1-21 good cause, to comply with a service plan ordered by the court 1-22 designed to correct the conditions necessitating out-of-home care 1-23 of the child; and 2-1 (3) despite the services or assistance reasonably made 2-2 available to the parent, in all reasonable probability, the child 2-3 will not be integrated into the home of the parent in the 2-4 foreseeable future due to conduct of the parent or the conditions 2-5 of the parent's home; and 2-6 (4) the termination is in the best interest of the 2-7 child. 2-8 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.