Bill Text: TX HB553 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to notice regarding summer weekend possession of a child under a standard possession order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-02 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB553 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB553-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 553 | ||
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| relating to notice regarding summer weekend possession of a child | ||
| under a standard possession order in a suit affecting the | ||
| parent-child relationship. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 153.312, Family Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding Section 153.316, after receiving notice | ||
| from the managing conservator under Subsection (b)(3) of this | ||
| section designating the summer weekend during which the managing | ||
| conservator is to have possession of the child, the possessory | ||
| conservator, not later than the 15th day before the Friday that | ||
| begins that designated weekend, must give the managing conservator | ||
| written notice of the location at which the managing conservator is | ||
| to pick up and return the child. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 153.312(c), Family Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to a court order providing for possession of | ||
| or access to a child rendered on or after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. A court order rendered before the effective date of this Act | ||
| is governed by the law in effect on the date the order was rendered, | ||
| and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 553 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 17, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 553 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 16, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
