| TX | SB500 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to access to certain information in the adoption process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-22
Filed |
| TX | HB1460 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to the establishment of a task force to locate relatives and certain individuals and to the procedures for providing notice to certain individuals on placement of a child in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-22
Filed |
| TX | HB1440 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to the Department of Family and Protective Services' annual report of key performance measures and data elements for child protection; authorizing a penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-21
Filed |
| TX | HB1354 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to the establishment of the Texas Adoption Assistance Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-15
Filed |
| TX | SB327 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to the establishment of the Texas Adoption Assistance Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-13
Filed |
| TX | SB348 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to the capacity of certain minors to consent to examination and postpartum or contraception-related medical treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-13
Filed |
| TX | HB1060 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to ensuring certain adoptive parents may consent to medical care and access information regarding their child who is eligible for benefits under Medicaid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | SB48 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to paid leave by certain state employees for the birth or adoption of a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | SJR12 | Intro
Prefile | Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing a parent's right to direct a child's education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HB1151 | Intro
Prefile | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HB1071 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to the establishment of the Texas Adoption Assistance Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HB212 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to the establishment of a parental empowerment program administered by the comptroller of public accounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HB624 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to the placement on community supervision, including deferred adjudication community supervision, of a defendant who is the primary caretaker of a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HB308 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to a suit for dissolution of a marriage and associated suit affecting the parent-child relationship when a party is pregnant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | SB126 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to studies or surveys on children's sexual behavior conducted at or by a public primary or secondary school, a public institution of higher education, a prescription drug manufacturer, a research entity, or another person; creating criminal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HB612 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to the establishment of an education savings account program, an insurance premium tax credit for contributions made for purposes of that program, and the award of attorney's fees in actions challenging certain educational choice laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HB741 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to the procedures for the removal of certain children in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services and monetary assistance provided by the Department of Family and Protective Services to certain relativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HB315 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to the terms and conditions of a standard possession order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HB497 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to requiring parental consent for behavioral or mental health treatment by school district personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | SB226 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to establishing residency for children who are the subject of parental child safety placement agreements for purposes of admission into public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HB681 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to policies and procedures of the Department of Family and Protective Services, including regarding service plans and post-removal assessments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HJR28 | Intro
Prefile | Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the rights of parents to direct the upbringing of their children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HB187 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to requiring a man determined by adjudication or acknowledgment to be a child's father to pay retroactive child support beginning on the first day of the calendar month in which the child's conception occurred.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HB707 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to the use of parental child safety placements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HB1155 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to monetary assistance provided by the Department of Family and Protective Services to certain parents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HB601 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | SB323 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to special appointments in suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HB701 | Intro
Prefile | Relating to the appointment of an attorney ad litem or an amicus attorney in certain cases of divorce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | HCR16 | Intro
Prefile | Affirming that fatherhood is essential to the development of all children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-12
Filed |
| TX | SB222 | Pass | Relating to paid leave by certain state employees for the birth or adoption of a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB891 | Pass | Relating to the use of expert testimony in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB718 | Pass | Relating to additional periods of possession of or access to a child to compensate for denial of court-ordered possession or access.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB719 | Pass | Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of property owned by a charitable organization that provides services related to the placement of a child in a foster or adoptive home.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18
Effective on 1/1/24 |
| TX | SB24 | Pass | Relating to the powers and duties of the Health and Human Services Commission and the transfer to the commission of certain powers and duties from the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB2277 | Veto | Relating to special appointments in suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-18
Vetoed by the Governor |
| TX | HB461 | Pass | Relating to a waiver of the requirement for the performance of an adoption evaluation in certain suits for adoption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB969 | Pass | Relating to local regulation to enforce child custody orders; authorizing a civil penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB4062 | Pass | Relating to creating an audiovisual recording of an interview of a child by a child custody evaluator in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB968 | Pass | Relating to procedures in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB1087 | Pass | Relating to the requirements for certain petitions and orders in suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services and the contents of a petition in certain suits affecting the parent-child relati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB1361 | Pass | Relating to the designation of liaison officers to assist certain students at public institutions of higher education who are parents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12
Effective immediately |
| TX | HB2658 | Pass | Relating to grounds for the involuntary termination of the parent-child relationship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB2969 | Pass | Relating to prohibiting a maximum age or age differential for prospective adoptive parents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-11
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB4765 | Pass | Relating to inheritance rights of adoptive parents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-11
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB2671 | Pass | Relating to the postponement of a hearing for a temporary order in certain family law cases referred to mediation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-10
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB3025 | Pass | Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offenses of aggravated kidnapping, kidnapping, and interference with child custody.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-10
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB4170 | Pass | Relating to enforcement actions taken against a child-care or child-placing agency administrator's license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-10
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | HB730 | Pass | Relating to policies and procedures regarding certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship, investigations by the Department of Family and Protective Services, and parental child safety placements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
Effective on 9/1/23 |
| TX | SB2109 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the appointment of a guardian ad litem in certain suits filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Placed on intent calendar |
| TX | SB869 | Pass | Relating to suits affecting the parent-child relationship, including the payment and enforcement of support ordered in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-23
Effective on 9/1/23 |
