HB4507 • 2025

Relating to a petition to change the name of a child.

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Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Dutton
Last action: 2025-05-15
Official status: 05/15/2025 H Placed on General State Calendar
Effective date: Not listed

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Relating to a petition to change the name of a child.

What This Bill Does

Relating to a petition to change the name of a child.

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Bill History

2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on General State Calendar
2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in Calendars
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report distributed
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Recalled from subcommittee
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Committee substitute considered in committee
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably as substituted
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . .
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Considered by s/c in public hearing
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in subcommittee
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in subcommittee
2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to s/c on Family & Fiduciary Relationships by Speaker
2025-03-12 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to a petition to change the name of a child.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) HB 4507 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

89R27047 KRM-D

By: Dutton

H.B. No. 4507

Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4507:

By: Johnson

C.S.H.B. No. 4507

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a petition to change the name of a child.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 45, Family Code, is

amended by adding Section 45.0015 to read as follows:

Sec.

45.0015.

WHO MAY FILE AFTER TERMINATION OF PARENTAL

RIGHTS; VENUE.

(a)

The following individuals may file a petition

requesting a change of name of a child for whom the parent-child

relationship between the child and the child's parents has been

terminated under Chapter 161:

(1)

the child who is the subject of the order

terminating the parent-child relationship if the child is at least

10 years of age;

(2)

an attorney ad litem appointed to represent the

child's interests in a proceeding under Chapter 161; or

(3)

a managing conservator appointed for the child

under Section 161.207.

(b)

A petition requesting a change of name of a child under

this section must be filed in the county where the child resides.

SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 45, Family Code, is

amended by adding Section 45.0025 to read as follows:

Sec.

45.0025.

REPRESENTATION OF CHILD PETITIONER. The

court shall appoint an attorney ad litem to represent the interest

of a child who files a petition under Section 45.0015 at the hearing

if the child is not already represented by an attorney.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.