By Corte                                               H.B. No. 321
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                                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.