By: Henderson S.B. No. 1573
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to powers and duties of parents appointed as conservators
1-2 of a child in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 14.02, Family Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) If both parents are appointed as conservators of the
1-7 child, either by agreement between the parties or by court order,
1-8 the court shall specify which parent has the power to enroll the
1-9 child in school and other <the> rights, privileges, duties, and
1-10 powers of a parent that are to be <retained by both parents, the
1-11 rights, privileges, duties, and powers of a parent that are to be
1-12 exercised jointly, and the rights, privileges, duties, and powers
1-13 that are to be> exercised exclusively by one parent. Each parent
1-14 has a duty to inform the other parent in a timely manner of
1-15 significant <retains the right to receive> information <from the
1-16 other parent> concerning the health, education, and welfare of the
1-17 child and, to the extent possible, the right to confer with the
1-18 other parent before making a decision concerning the health,
1-19 education, and welfare of the child, and the court shall specify
1-20 these rights in the order.
1-21 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
1-22 applies only to an order rendered by a court in a suit affecting
1-23 the parent-child relationship that is filed on or after the
1-24 effective date of this Act.
2-1 (b) An order rendered by a court in a suit affecting the
2-2 parent-child relationship that is filed before the effective date
2-3 of this Act is covered by the law in effect on the date the suit is
2-4 filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.