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4 Document(s) [ Subject: Visitation rights ]

Committee:	Senate Jurisprudence
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Senate Committee on Jurisprudence interim report
Subjects:	Adoption \| Air pollution control technology \| Child abuse \| Child custody \| Children's Advocacy Centers \| Extraterritorial jurisdiction \| Grandparents \| Houston, Texas \| Judges \| Juries \| Medical records \| Occupational licenses \| Parents \| Private investigators \| Probate courts \| Records management \| Rules of evidence \| Texas Code of Criminal Procedure \| Visitation rights \|
Library Call Number:	L1836.80 J979
Session:	80th R.S. (2007)
Online version:	View report [161 pages File size: 5,386 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study the laws governing suits affecting the parent-child relationship involving non-parents, including suits for possession of or access to a child by a grandparent, and make recommendations for providing the best care and protection for the children involved. Provide an assessment of the constitutional issues involved with these suits.
2.	Study the management and storage of adoption records, including the costs and benefits of converting records into digital format. Study ways to increase access by adopted persons and their children and spouses to important family medical history information and ensure that medical history information is updated, while maintaining privacy and anonymity of records.
3.	Examine the role of heir finders in Texas and make recommendations regarding professional standards and fees for heir finders.
4.	Identify and study best practices for representation of children in child abuse and neglect cases and determine whether to implement further training, oversight, or other requirements for judges, attorneys, and others responsible for child abuse and neglect cases, including child sexual abuse cases. Develop and implement tools for children’s advocacy centers (CACs) and prosecutors to successfully investigate and prosecute child abusers. Include the following: Explore changes to the rules of evidence that could facilitate the presentation of child testimony in court; Explore making prior extraneous sex offenses admissible during determination of guilt, as has been adopted in the federal court system; and Explore possible expansion of the rules regarding how cases are consolidated and punishments are stacked in a single trial involving a crime committed against a child.
5.	Study practices intended to enhance the jury experience and increase jury participation, including: allowing jurors to ask questions of witnesses by submitting them to the judge in writing; allowing lawyers to periodically summarize testimony for the jury; allowing jurors to take notes during trial; and allowing jurors to discuss evidence among themselves during trial.
6.	Study and make recommendations relating to the jurisdiction, authority, power and discretion of probate judges in Texas, including the authority of a probate judge to intervene in a non-probate case.
7.	Study administrative and legal procedures used by municipalities to exert regulatory authority beyond city limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction. Determine whether conflicts exist with agencies' regulatory authority and regulatory authority delegated to home-rule municipalities, and make recommendations for appropriate delegation and clarification of respective authorities.
8.	Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Jurisprudence Committee, 80th R.S., and make recommendations for any legislation needed to improve, enhance, and/or complete implementation.
Committee:	House Juvenile Justice and Family Issues
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on Juvenile Justice and Family Issues, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2000 : a report to the House of Representatives, 77th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Attorney General of Texas \| Child custody \| Child support \| Community property \| Criminal Justice Policy Council \| Juvenile justice alternative education programs \| Juvenile Probation Commission, Texas \| Kidnapping \| Progressive sanctions (Criminal justice) \| Protective and Regulatory Services, Texas Department of \| Visitation rights \| Youth Commission, Texas \|
Library Call Number:	L1836.76 j987
Session:	76th R.S. (1999)
Online version:	View report [60 pages File size: 2,040 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Review current laws relating to parental abduction.
2.	Review the Texas community property system, including constitutional and statutory provisions in Title 1, Family Code.
3.	Review child support visitation guidelines as required by the federal government.
4.	Conduct active oversight of the agencies under the committee's jurisdiction, including the child support enforcement program and recent law changes affecting the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services.
Committee:	House Judicial Affairs
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Committee on Judicial Affairs, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1996 : a report to the House of Representatives, 75th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Child custody \| Civil legal aid \| Juries \| Jury duty \| Kidnapping \| Probate courts \| Visitation rights \|
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 j899
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View report [44 pages File size: 2,131 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Conduct active oversight of agencies under the committee's jurisdiction.
2.	Study the feasibility of developing uniform forms for simple pro se proceedings like uncontested divorce actions involving no property or children and probate proceedings in small, simple and uncontested cases to conform with current law.
3.	Review current issues relating to jury service, including exemptions from service, composition of the jury wheel and possible variations in jury wheel composition in different counties.
4.	Review the Probate Code to determine the merits of allowing securities to transfer on the death of the owner by registration of the beneficiary.
5.	Study parental kidnaping laws that allow for child locations and protect battered women.
Committee:	House Judiciary
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of the Committee on Judiciary, House of Representatives, State of Texas, 67th Legislature.
Subjects:	At-risk youth \| Child custody \| Child support \| Courts \| Historical records \| Judicial Conduct, State Commission on \| Juvenile crime \| Juvenile justice system \| Kidnapping \| Open Meetings Act, Texas \| Records management \| Rules of evidence \| Runaway children \| Statutory revision \| Truancy \| Visitation rights \|
Library Call Number:	L1836.67 j898
Session:	67th R.S. (1981)
Online version:	View report [124 pages File size: 3,598 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study Title II, Subtitle A and Title III of the Family Code, with a view toward recommendations modifying and expanding the statutes, including but not limited to: (a) parental kidnapping; (b) the disposition of juvenile cases (c) special issued in suits affecting the parent-child relationship; (d) mandatory requirements for court interpreters; and (e) grandparent visitation.
2.	Study the preservation of records of the courts of appeal and district courts.
3.	Study the rules of evidence for civil cases.
4.	Review the hearing and investigative processes of the Judicial Conduct Commission.
5.	Review the general rules of venue.
6.	Study the Open Meetings Act to determine if changes are necessary to make the Act more effective.

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