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H.B. No. 409
AN ACT
relating to the appeal of certain orders regarding children in the
conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective
Services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 263.405, Family Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
(i) The appellate court may not consider any issue that was
not specifically presented to the trial court in a timely filed
statement of the points on which the party intends to appeal or in a
statement combined with a motion for new trial. For purposes of
this subsection, a claim that a judicial decision is contrary to the
evidence or that the evidence is factually or legally insufficient
is not sufficiently specific to preserve an issue for appeal.
SECTION 2. Section 263.405(i), Family Code, as added by
this Act, applies only to an appeal of a final order under
Subchapter E, Chapter 263, Family Code, filed on or after the
effective date of this Act. An appeal of a final order under
Subchapter E, Chapter 263, Family Code, filed before the effective
date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the
appeal was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 409 was passed by the House on April
20, 2005, by a non-record vote.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 409 was passed by the Senate on May
12, 2005, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
_____________________
Governor