H.B. No. 1404
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to certain temporary orders in a suit affecting the
  parent-child relationship during a parent's military deployment.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 153.702(a) and (c), Family Code, are
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  If a conservator is ordered to military deployment,
  military mobilization, or temporary military duty that involves
  moving a substantial distance from the conservator's residence so
  as to materially affect the conservator's ability to exercise the
  conservator's rights and duties in relation to a child, either
  conservator may file for an order under this subchapter without the
  necessity of showing a material and substantial change of
  circumstances other than the military deployment, military
  mobilization, or temporary military duty.
         (c)  A temporary order rendered by the court under this
  subchapter may grant rights to and impose duties on a designated
  person regarding the child, except that if the designated person is
  a nonparent, the court may not require the designated person to pay
  child support.
         SECTION 2.  Section 153.703(b), Family Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (b)  A nonparent appointed as a designated person [named] in
  a temporary order rendered under this section has the rights and
  duties of a nonparent appointed as sole managing conservator under
  Section 153.371.
         SECTION 3.  Section 153.706, Family Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 4.  The changes in law made by this Act apply to a
  motion for a temporary order under Subchapter L, Chapter 153,
  Family Code, that is pending in a trial court on the effective date
  of this Act or filed on or after that date.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1404 was passed by the House on March
  31, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1404 was passed by the Senate on May
  10, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor