By Corte H.B. No. 321 76R1648 JMM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to parental rights and duties. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 151.003(a), Family Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 (a) A parent of a child has the following rights and duties: 1-7 (1) the right to have physical possession, to direct 1-8 the moral and religious training, and to establish the residence of 1-9 the child; 1-10 (2) the duty of care, control, protection, and 1-11 reasonable discipline of the child; 1-12 (3) the duty to support the child, including providing 1-13 the child with clothing, food, shelter, medical and dental care, 1-14 and education; 1-15 (4) the duty, except when a guardian of the child's 1-16 estate has been appointed, to manage the estate of the child, 1-17 including the right as an agent of the child to act in relation to 1-18 the child's estate if the child's action is required by a state, 1-19 the United States, or a foreign government; 1-20 (5) the right to the services and earnings of the 1-21 child; 1-22 (6) the right to consent to the child's marriage, 1-23 enlistment in the armed forces of the United States, medical and 1-24 dental care, and psychiatric, psychological, and surgical 2-1 treatment; 2-2 (7) the right to represent the child in legal action 2-3 and to make other decisions of substantial legal significance 2-4 concerning the child; 2-5 (8) the right to receive and give receipt for payments 2-6 for the support of the child and to hold or disburse funds for the 2-7 benefit of the child; 2-8 (9) the right to inherit from and through the child; 2-9 (10) the duty and the right to direct the upbringing 2-10 of the child and to make decisions concerning the child's 2-11 education; and 2-12 (11) any other right or duty existing between a parent 2-13 and child by virtue of law. 2-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.