By: Orr, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 1734          (In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2025;   April 30, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on   Jurisprudence; May 15, 2025, reported favorably by the following   vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 15, 2025, sent to printer.)Click here to see the committee vote     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT     relating to the transfer of court files in a suit affecting the   parent-child relationship in which continuing, exclusive   jurisdiction is transferred.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 155.207(a), Family Code, is amended to   read as follows:          (a)  Not later than the 10th working day after the date an   order of transfer is signed, the clerk of the court transferring a   proceeding shall send, using the electronic filing system   established under Section 72.031, Government Code, to the proper   court to which transfer is being made:                (1)  a transfer certificate and index of transferred   documents;                (2)  a copy of each final order;                (3)  a copy of the order of transfer signed by the   transferring court;                (4)  a copy of the pleadings in the pending proceeding   and any other document specifically requested by a party [original   papers filed in the transferring court];                (5)  a copy of the transfer certificate and index of   transferred documents from each previous transfer; and                (6)  a bill of any costs that have accrued in the   transferring court.          SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Section   155.207(a), Family Code, applies only to a suit affecting the   parent-child relationship in which an order transferring   continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to another court is rendered on   or after the effective date of this Act. A suit affecting the   parent-child relationship in which an order transferring   continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to another court is rendered   before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in   effect on the date the order was rendered, and the former law is   continued in effect for that purpose.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.     * * * * *