Bill Text: TX HB3802 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to intervention by a foster parent in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-23 - Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues [HB3802 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB3802-Introduced.html

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84R13116 YDB-D
By: Rodriguez of Bexar H.B. No. 3802

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to intervention by a foster parent in a suit affecting the
parent-child relationship.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 102, Family Code, is amended by adding
Section 102.0031 to read as follows:
Sec. 102.0031. INTERVENTION BY FOSTER PARENT. A court may
not grant a foster parent of a child placed in the foster parent's
home by the Department of Family and Protective Services leave to
intervene in a pending suit that involves the child unless the child
has been in the foster parent's home for at least 12 months.
SECTION 2. Section 102.0031, Family Code, as added by this
Act, applies only to a motion to intervene pending on or filed on or
after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.