1-1 By: Henderson S.B. No. 1573
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 22, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 April 11, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
1-5 Nays 0; April 11, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to powers and duties of parents appointed as conservators
1-9 of a child in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 14.02, Family Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) If both parents are appointed as conservators of the
1-14 child, either by agreement between the parties or by court order,
1-15 the court shall specify which parent has the power to enroll the
1-16 child in school and other <the> rights, privileges, duties, and
1-17 powers of a parent that are to be <retained by both parents, the
1-18 rights, privileges, duties, and powers of a parent that are to be
1-19 exercised jointly, and the rights, privileges, duties, and powers
1-20 that are to be> exercised exclusively by one parent. Each parent
1-21 has a duty to inform the other parent in a timely manner of
1-22 significant <retains the right to receive> information <from the
1-23 other parent> concerning the health, education, and welfare of the
1-24 child and, to the extent possible, the right to confer with the
1-25 other parent before making a decision concerning the health,
1-26 education, and welfare of the child, and the court shall specify
1-27 these rights in the order.
1-28 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
1-29 applies only to an order rendered by a court in a suit affecting
1-30 the parent-child relationship that is filed on or after the
1-31 effective date of this Act.
1-32 (b) An order rendered by a court in a suit affecting the
1-33 parent-child relationship that is filed before the effective date
1-34 of this Act is covered by the law in effect on the date the suit is
1-35 filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-36 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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