Texas GOP Legislators must stand with voters and pass the 2025 EQUAL PARENTING BILL SB849 (click here to read bill), which is a GOP Platform Plank. This important issue has been frequently in the top 15 top priorities out of the legislative priorities committee sent to the delegates of the Texas State Republican Convention to choose from in deciding the top eight issues. The GOP delegates have overwhelmingly voted to keep it as a plank in the Texas GOP Platform. Unfortunately, the recent Democrat Chairs of the Texas House Juvenile Justice and Family Issues Committee have killed the bill by denying or delaying a vote on this important issue each session, which is strange considering this is a bipartisan issue which has had several Democrat Legislators sign on in recent years. This year it is time for Republicans to stand up and take the reins on this issue and push it through the Texas Senate first so that it goes to the House for a vote and bypasses the Democrats in the House who have recently prevented it from getting out of committee.
State Senator Bryan Hughes, GOP delegates are asking you to please set SB 849 to a timely hearing. Senator Hughes is one of the most outstanding and respected Republican legislators in Texas, and we believe that if he hears us Republicans asking him to give this GOP Platform plank a hearing and vote, then he will listen and get it finally voted out of a committee to send to House Rep. Jeff Leach. Chair Leach can then bypass Democrats who are wanting to kill the bill and finally get Senator Mayes Middleton's Equal Parenting Bill a timely House vote, instead of letting this popular and bipartisan GOP platform plank get killed as it has in the past by the JJFI Dem Chairs (even though this is a bipartisan bill with past Democrat sponsors).
Please call Senator Bryan Hughes (512) 463-0101 and politely ask him to stand with us on this important and popular issue, and ask him to set the 2025 Texas Equal Parenting Bill to a timely hearing. Then call Representative Jeff Leach (512) 463-0544 and ask him to take the bill up quickly in his House Committee.
Other Major states like Florida have already passed it with great success, and studies and statistics are clear that it is best for kids and for society for a child to have both fit parents in the child’s life as equally as possible! See more info on Equal Parenting at EqualJusticeTaskForce.com.
With Equal Parenting Laws, kids in Texas would start off in court custody cases with a check box of equal time and possession. This helps the kids by preserving their right to a loving relationship with both parents as well as cuts down unnecessary court fighting over custody when both parents are fit, willing, & able.
There is no risk to children as Equal Parenting would only be applicable in cases where both parents are fit and appointed joint managing conservators. A judge would still have the ability to deviate from equal parenting starting point based on just cause to justify deviation. Equal Parenting laws are vital issue that can help kids and unclog courts and also benefit society as a whole.
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