Honorable Harold V. Dutton, Jr., Chair, House Committee on Juvenile Justice & Family Issues
FROM:
Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
SB818 by Rodríguez (Relating to the requirement that a parent appointed as a conservator of a child disclose certain information regarding family violence; creating a criminal offense.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would amend Section 153.076 of the Family Code to require each parent of a child to inform the other conservator if the parent resides with certain individuals, allows certain individuals unsupervised access to the child, or if the parent is the subject of a final protective order after the date of the order establishing conservatorship. The bill sets certain deadlines by which the parent must inform the other conservator of this information and makes the failure to provide proper notice per the provisions of the bill a Class C misdemeanor.
The bill may increase Child Protective Services intakes and require the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) legal division to make revisions to final orders. This analysis assumes that DFPS could absorb these costs within existing resources.
The Office of Court Administration does not anticipate any significant fiscal impact to the state court system resulting from the bill.
The bill would take effect on September 1, 2015.
Local Government Impact
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source Agencies:
212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council, 530 Family and Protective Services, Department of