Bill Text: TX HB1404 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to certain temporary orders in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship during a parent's military deployment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-21 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB1404 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1404-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1404 |
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relating to certain temporary orders in a suit affecting the | ||
parent-child relationship during a parent's military deployment. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 153.702(a) and (c), Family Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) If a conservator is ordered to military deployment, | ||
military mobilization, or temporary military duty that involves | ||
moving a substantial distance from the conservator's residence so | ||
as to materially affect the conservator's ability to exercise the | ||
conservator's rights and duties in relation to a child, either | ||
conservator may file for an order under this subchapter without the | ||
necessity of showing a material and substantial change of | ||
circumstances other than the military deployment, military | ||
mobilization, or temporary military duty. | ||
(c) A temporary order rendered by the court under this | ||
subchapter may grant rights to and impose duties on a designated | ||
person regarding the child, except that if the designated person is | ||
a nonparent, the court may not require the designated person to pay | ||
child support. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 153.703(b), Family Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) A nonparent appointed as a designated person [ |
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a temporary order rendered under this section has the rights and | ||
duties of a nonparent appointed as sole managing conservator under | ||
Section 153.371. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 153.706, Family Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply to a | ||
motion for a temporary order under Subchapter L, Chapter 153, | ||
Family Code, that is pending in a trial court on the effective date | ||
of this Act or filed on or after that date. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1404 was passed by the House on March | ||
31, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1404 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
10, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |