87R3481 EAS-D     By: Dutton H.B. No. 1112       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the mandatory transfer of certain protective orders   that affect a party's right to possession of or access to a child.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 85, Family Code, is   amended by adding Section 85.0641 to read as follows:          Sec. 85.0641.  MANDATORY TRANSFER OF CERTAIN PROTECTIVE   ORDERS. (a) This section applies only in a county with a population   of four million or more.           (b)  Notwithstanding Section 85.064(a), during the pendency   of a suit affecting the parent-child relationship, a court that   renders a protective order that affects the right of a party to the   suit to possession of or access to a child shall transfer the   protection order to the court having jurisdiction of the suit   affecting the parent-child relationship.          SECTION 2.  Section 85.0641, Family Code, as added by this   Act, applies only to a protective order rendered on or after the   effective date of this Act. A protective order rendered before that   date 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, 2021.