By Goodman                                             H.B. No. 757
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the parties entitled to citation in a suit affecting
    1-3  the parent-child relationship.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 11.09, Family Code, is amended by
    1-6  amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection (f) to read
    1-7  as follows:
    1-8        (a)  Except as provided in Subsection (b) of this section,
    1-9  the following persons are entitled to service of citation on the
   1-10  filing of a petition in a suit affecting the parent-child
   1-11  relationship:
   1-12              (1)  the managing conservator, if any;
   1-13              (2)  possessory conservators, if any;
   1-14              (3)  persons, if any, having access to the child under
   1-15  an order of the court;
   1-16              (4)  persons, if any, required by law or by order of a
   1-17  court to provide for the support of a child;
   1-18              (5)  the guardian of the person of the child, if any;
   1-19              (6)  the guardian of the estate of the child, if any;
   1-20              (7)  each parent as to whom the parent-child
   1-21  relationship has not been terminated or process has not been waived
   1-22  under Section 15.03(c)(2) of this code; and
   1-23              (8)  the alleged father or probable father, unless
   1-24  there is attached to the petition an affidavit of waiver of
    2-1  interest in a child executed by the alleged father or probable
    2-2  father as provided in Section 15.041 of this code<, or unless the
    2-3  petition states that the identity of the father is unknown; and>
    2-4              <(9)  the attorney general, if the petition seeks to
    2-5  establish, modify, or enforce any support right assigned to the
    2-6  attorney general under Chapter 76, Human Resources Code>.
    2-7        (b)  Service of citation may be given to any other person who
    2-8  has or who may assert an interest in the child and shall <may> be
    2-9  given to an <the> unknown father of a child who has no presumed
   2-10  father.
   2-11        (f)  If the petition seeks to establish, modify, or enforce
   2-12  any support right assigned to the attorney general under Chapter
   2-13  76, Human Resources Code, notice shall be given to the attorney
   2-14  general in a manner provided by Rule 21a, Texas Rules of Civil
   2-15  Procedure.
   2-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-22  passage, and it is so enacted.