Bill Text: TX HB969 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to local regulation to enforce child custody orders; authorizing a civil penalty.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB969 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB969-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to local regulation to enforce child custody orders; authorizing a civil penalty.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB969 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB969-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Cook, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Middleton) | H.B. No. 969 | |
| (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2023; | ||
| May 11, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
| Affairs; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
| Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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| LaMantiaX | ||
| MenéndezX | ||
| MiddletonX | ||
| ParkerX | ||
| PerryX | ||
| SchwertnerX | ||
| ZaffiriniX | ||
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| relating to local regulation to enforce child custody orders; | ||
| authorizing a civil penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 157, Family Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subchapter K to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER K. LOCAL REGULATION AND ENFORCEMENT | ||
| Sec. 157.551. CIVIL PENALTY FOR INTERFERENCE WITH CHILD | ||
| CUSTODY ORDER. A municipality or county in this state may adopt an | ||
| ordinance or order that imposes a civil penalty of not more than | ||
| $500 for engaging in conduct described by Section 25.03, Penal | ||
| Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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