HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    Juvenile Justice & Family Issues 

TIME & DATE:  10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess or bill referral if permission granted
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 

PLACE:       E2.030 
CHAIR:       Rep. Harold V. Dutton, Jr. 

Testimony will be limited to three (3) minutes.

The order in which bills are heard is at the discretion of the chair.

HB 968         Gates                                                 
Relating to procedures in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.

HB 969         Cook | et al.                                         
Relating to local regulation to enforce child custody orders; authorizing a civil penalty.

HB 1520        Canales                                               
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department and the functions of the office of independent ombudsman for the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.

HB 1546        Cook                                                  
Relating to the recovery of fees, court costs, and expenses in family law proceedings.

HB 2581        Dutton                                                
Relating to the allocation of child care expenses for a child subject to a child support order.

HB 2583        Dutton                                                
Relating to the application of child support guidelines to net resources in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.

HB 2658        Leach                                                 
Relating to grounds for the involuntary termination of the parent-child relationship.

HB 2716        Hull                                                  
Relating to neglect of a child and the grounds for termination of the parent-child relationship and possession of a child by the Department of Family and Protective Services.

HB 2948        Cook | et al.                                         
Relating to the modification of a possession order and temporary possession of a child when a conservator of the child is incapacitated.

HB 2969        Cook | et al.                                         
Relating to prohibiting a maximum age or age differential for prospective adoptive parents.

HB 3380        Cook                                                  
Relating to the Uniform Unregulated Child Custody Transfer Act; creating criminal offenses.

HB 4161        Gervin-Hawkins                                         
Relating to the procedures for providing notice to certain individuals on placement of a child in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.

HB 4355        Wu                                                    
Relating to the interview of a child in a suit affecting a parent-child relationship.

HB 4715        Vasut                                                 
Relating to the establishment of paternity and the duty to pay child support and to victim restitution or compensation for certain sexual offenses resulting in pregnancy.

HB 4953        Leo-Wilson | et al.                                    
Relating to the procedures for the removal of certain children in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.

HB 5103        Dutton                                                
Relating to the rights and duties of each parent that must be specified in certain agreed parenting plans and orders for the joint managing conservatorship of a child.

HB 5370        Harris, Cody                                          
Relating to the composition of the juvenile board of Navarro County.

HCR 81         Schatzline                                            
Affirming that fatherhood is essential to the development of all children.

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