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Senate unanimously backs bill clarifying school-enrollment rights for sole managing conservator
Summary
A committee substitute for House Bill 24 95 clarifies that a sole managing conservator has the exclusive right to choose and enroll a child in school; the Senate passed the measure 31-0.
The Texas Senate passed the committee substitute for House Bill 24 95 to clarify certain enrollment rights of a sole managing conservator in suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
Senator Zaffirini presented the bill and said it would generally clarify that a sole managing conservator has the exclusive right to choose and enroll the child in school. The measure was taken up under suspension, advanced to third reading, and the Senate suspended the three-day constitutional rule to allow immediate final passage.
Final passage was recorded 31 ayes and 0 nays. Floor remarks summarized the bill as preserving a sole managing conservator’s authority on school enrollment decisions while preserving parties’ ability to request additional documents in transferred court-file situations addressed elsewhere in the code.
The transcript shows the bill moved through the procedural steps with no recorded floor amendments in the provided excerpt.
