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Texas · 90th Legislature Regular Session

HB185 Relating to certain services and interventions ordered in a suit affecting a parent-child relationship and to certain judicial training requirements.

Direction

Custody & support custody parenting timeAI label

Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parent ✓ Reviewed model said: No change to · Limits court-ordered interventions in family-violence custody cases (must be evidence-based); same effect as limiting reunification therapy for the parent cut off from the child. model confidence 80%

Requires that any court-ordered services or interventions related to family violence or child abuse/neglect in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship be evidence-based with proof of effectiveness, therapeutic value, and safety, and adds related judicial training requirements.

The court may not require a party or a child to participate in a service or intervention related to family violence or child abuse or neglect unless: (1) the service or intervention is evidence-based; and (2) there is generally accepted proof of the effectiveness, therapeutic value, and physical and psychological safety of the service or intervention.

✓ Quote verified word for word in the bill text

Custody & support domestic violence custodyAI label

Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parent ✓ Reviewed model said: No change to · Limits court-ordered interventions in family-violence custody cases (must be evidence-based); same effect as limiting reunification therapy for the parent cut off from the child. model confidence 80%

Requires that any court-ordered services or interventions related to family violence or child abuse/neglect in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship be evidence-based with proof of effectiveness, therapeutic value, and safety, and adds related judicial training requirements.

The court may not require a party or a child to participate in a service or intervention related to family violence or child abuse or neglect unless: (1) the service or intervention is evidence-based; and (2) there is generally accepted proof of the effectiveness, therapeutic value, and physical and psychological safety of the service or intervention.

✓ Quote verified word for word in the bill text

  1. Filed
  2. Committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both
  5. Governor
  6. Law

Stage: Filed · step 1 of 6

Last action
2026-11-09: Filed
Filed
2026-11-09
Sponsor
Pat Curry R

Why the model tagged it this way: The bill adds requirements that court-ordered services/interventions in SAPCR cases (including those related to family violence or child abuse) must be evidence-based and proven safe/effective, and expands judicial training on evaluating such services; these are procedural/quality standards with no substantive change to custody, parenting time, support, or related parental rights/obligations under the custody-support axis.

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History (1 actions)
DateChamberAction
2026-11-09HFiled