BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 1410 |
By: Ortega |
Juvenile Justice & Family Issues |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties suggest that foster parents deserve more influence in suits involving the conservatorship of a child. C.S.H.B. 1410 seeks to address this issue by authorizing a court to grant leave for a foster parent to intervene in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
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RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 1410 amends the Family Code to condition the authorization for a court to grant leave for a foster parent to intervene in a pending suit requesting possessory conservatorship of a child filed by another person if there is satisfactory proof to the court that appointment of a parent as a sole managing conservator or both parents as joint managing conservators would significantly impair the child's physical health or emotional development on the condition that the foster parent would have standing to file an original suit affecting the parent-child relationship on the basis of the child's placement by the Department of Family and Protective Services in the foster parent's home for a certain period.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2017.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 1410 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and formatted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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