2023S0243-1 03/06/23     By: Hughes S.B. No. 1690     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to prohibiting the conservatorship of a child by a parent   who removes the child from this state for certain purposes relating   to gender reassignment.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 153, Family Code, is   amended by adding Section 153.0041 to read as follows:          Sec. 153.0041.  GENDER REASSIGNMENT TREATMENT OR PROCEDURE.   (a) In this section, "gender reassignment treatment or procedure"   means a medical treatment or procedure provided or performed for   the purpose of altering an individual's primary or secondary sex   characteristics. The term includes providing puberty-blocking   drugs, providing cross-sex hormones, or performing genital or   nongenital gender reassignment surgery.          (b)  The court may not appoint a parent as conservator of a   child if the parent removed the child from this state for the   purpose of obtaining or seeking to obtain a gender reassignment   treatment or procedure for the child and the parent requests a   transfer of jurisdiction from this state.          (c)  In an order appointing a conservator, the court shall   include a notice of the potential consequences of removing a child   from this state for the purpose of obtaining or seeking to obtain a   gender reassignment treatment or procedure.          SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 156, Family Code, is   amended by adding Section 156.1042 to read as follows:          Sec. 156.1042.  MODIFICATION OF ORDER ON CERTAIN GROUNDS   RELATING TO GENDER REASSIGNMENT TREATMENT OR PROCEDURE. (a) In   this section, "gender reassignment treatment or procedure" has the   meaning assigned by Section 153.0041.          (b)  The removal of a child from this state by the child's   parent for the purpose of obtaining or seeking to obtain a gender   reassignment treatment or procedure for the child constitutes a   material and substantial change in circumstances sufficient to   justify a temporary order and modification of an existing court   order or portion of a decree that provides for the appointment of   the parent as the child's conservator.          SECTION 3.  (a) Section 153.0041(b), Family Code, as added   by this Act, applies only to a removal of a child from this state by   the child's parent for the purpose described by that subsection   that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act.          (b)  Section 153.0041(c), Family Code, as added by this Act,   applies only to an order rendered on or after the effective date of   this Act.          SECTION 4.  Section 156.1042, Family Code, as added by this   Act, applies only to a suit for modification of an order providing   for the conservatorship of a child that is brought on the grounds   that, on or after the effective date of this Act, a parent removed   the parent's child from this state for the purpose described by that   section.          SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.