85R26427 MM-F
 
  By: Keough, Raymond, et al. H.B. No. 205
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 205:
 
  By:  Rose C.S.H.B. No. 205
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to procedures for ordering the required participation in
  services in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 264.203, Family Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read
  as follows:
         (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (d), if the court finds
  by a preponderance of the evidence that abuse or neglect has
  occurred or is likely to occur, the court on request of the
  department may order the parent, managing conservator, guardian, or
  other member of the subject child's household to:
               (1)  participate in the services the department
  provides or purchases for:
                     (A)  alleviating the effects of the abuse or
  neglect that has occurred; or
                     (B)  reducing the reasonable likelihood that the
  child may be abused or neglected in the immediate or foreseeable
  future; and
               (2)  permit the child and any siblings of the child to
  receive the services.
         (e)  Before the court may order the participation of a
  parent, managing conservator, guardian, or other member of the
  subject child's household in services, the court shall advise any
  person who is not represented by an attorney of:
               (1)  the right to be represented by an attorney; and
               (2)  if the person is indigent and opposes the order to
  participate in services, the right to a court-appointed attorney,
  subject to the procedures in Section 263.0061(b).
         (f)  If a parent, managing conservator, guardian, or other
  member of the subject child's household is opposed to participating
  in services and is not represented by an attorney at the hearing,
  the court may not order the person to participate in services until
  the person has either retained or been appointed an attorney.
         SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply to a
  suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed on or after the
  effective date of this Act. A suit affecting the parent-child
  relationship filed before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date the suit was filed, and the
  former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.