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Timestamp: 2017-10-21 15:50:00
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TEXAS – Pro-paddling bill sails through House; Under plan, prosecutors must show spanking is more than discipline
Dallas Morning News, April 18, 2005
Or, if you're not around to administer the whipping, you can pass it off to an aunt, uncle, grandparent, neighbor or teacher without fear of prosecution, under legislation that passed the House without debate Monday. [Emphasis added]
Wants to give spankers a free hand.
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By: Dutton, et al.
H.B. No. 383
relating to the right of certain persons to discipline a child. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 151.001, Family Code, is amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: (e) A parent of a child or other person who has the duty of control and reasonable discipline of the child may use corporal punishment for the reasonable discipline of the child. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2005.
Below is the Family Code that will be amended if H.B. 383 passes in the Senate.
SUBTITLE B. SUITS AFFECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP CHAPTER 151. RIGHTS AND DUTIES IN PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP
(9) the right to inherit from and through the child; (10) the right to make decisions concerning the child's education; and
(b) The duty of a parent to support his or her child exists while the child is an unemancipated minor and continues as long as the child is fully enrolled in an accredited secondary school in a program leading toward a high school diploma until the end of the school year in which the child graduates.
(2) an affidavit of relinquishment of parental rights;
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 751, § 23, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. Renumbered from § 151.003 by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 821, § 2.13, eff. June 14, 2001. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 964, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2001; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1036, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995. Renumbered from § 151.004 by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 821, § 2.13, eff. June 14, 2001.
§ 151.003. LIMITATION ON STATE AGENCY ACTION. A state agency may not adopt rules or policies or take any other action that violates the fundamental right and duty of a parent to direct the upbringing of the parent's child.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, § 6.18(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Renumbered from § 151.005 by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 821, § 2.13, eff. June 14, 2001.