Amend CSSB 6, in Article 1 of the bill, by adding the
following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering the
SECTIONS in that article accordingly:
SECTION __. (a) Sections 262.112(a) and (b), Family Code,
are amended to read as follows:
(a) The Department of Family and Protective [and
Regulatory] Services and the parent, conservator, or legal guardian
are [is] entitled to an expedited hearing under this chapter in any
proceeding in which a hearing is required if the department
determines that a child should be removed from the child's home
because of an immediate danger to the physical health or safety of
the child.
(b) In any proceeding in which an expedited hearing is held
under Subsection (a), the department, parent, conservator,
guardian, or other party to the proceeding is entitled to an
expedited appeal on a ruling by a court that the child may or may not
be removed from the child's home.
(b) Section 262.112, Family Code, as amended by this
article, applies only to an investigation of an allegation of child
abuse or neglect initiated on or after the effective date of this
Act. An investigation of an allegation of child abuse or neglect
initiated before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
law in effect on the date the investigation was initiated, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.