By:  Goodman                                           H.B. No. 757
       73R4160 JBN-F
                                 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.  Sections 11.09(a) and (b), Family Code, are
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Except as provided in Subsection (b) of this section,
    1-8  the following persons are entitled to service of citation on the
    1-9  filing of a petition in a suit affecting the parent-child
   1-10  relationship:
   1-11              (1)  the managing conservator, if any;
   1-12              (2)  possessory conservators, if any;
   1-13              (3)  persons, if any, having access to the child under
   1-14  an order of the court;
   1-15              (4)  persons, if any, required by law or by order of a
   1-16  court to provide for the support of a child;
   1-17              (5)  the guardian of the person of the child, if any;
   1-18              (6)  the guardian of the estate of the child, if any;
   1-19              (7)  each parent as to whom the parent-child
   1-20  relationship has not been terminated or process has not been waived
   1-21  under Section 15.03(c)(2) of this code;
   1-22              (8)  the alleged father or probable father, unless
   1-23  there is attached to the petition an affidavit of waiver of
   1-24  interest in a child executed by the alleged father or probable
    2-1  father as provided in Section 15.041 of this code<, or unless the
    2-2  petition states that the identity of the father is unknown>; and
    2-3              (9)  the attorney general, if the petition seeks to
    2-4  establish, modify, or enforce any support right assigned to the
    2-5  attorney general under Chapter 76, Human Resources Code.
    2-6        (b)  Service of citation may be given to any other person who
    2-7  has or who may assert an interest in the child and shall <may> be
    2-8  given to an <the> unknown father of a child who has no presumed
    2-9  father.
   2-10        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-15  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-16  passage, and it is so enacted.