73R4161 JBN-F
          By Goodman                                             H.B. No. 759
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the making of a record in a child support or access
    1-3  enforcement proceeding.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 14.32(b), Family Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        (b)  Record <Court Reporter>.  An enforcement order under
    1-8  this subchapter may not be entered if a record of the proceedings
    1-9  is not made by a court reporter or as provided by Subchapter A,
   1-10  Chapter 54, Government Code, unless:
   1-11              (1)  the parties agree on entry of the order; or
   1-12              (2)  when the motion does not seek <if the order seeks>
   1-13  incarceration, the parties waive the requirement of a record at the
   1-14  time of the hearing, either in writing or in open court and with
   1-15  the approval of the court.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The change in the law made by this Act applies to
   1-17  a proceeding under Subchapter B, Chapter 14, Family Code, in which
   1-18  a hearing has not been held before the effective date of this Act.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-20        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
    2-1                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
    2-2        Amend House Bill 759 on page 1, following line 18, by
    2-3  inserting a new Section 3 as follows and sequentially renumbering
    2-4  subsequent sections:
    2-5        SECTION 3.  Amend Section 11.191, Family Code, to read as
    2-6  follows:
    2-7        "Sec. 11.191.  Payment for Statement of Facts.  If the party
    2-8  requesting a statement of facts in an appeal of a suit affecting
    2-9  the parent-child relationship has filed an affidavit stating the
   2-10  party's inability to pay costs as provided by Rule 40, Texas Rules
   2-11  of Appellate Procedure, and the affidavit is approved by the trial
   2-12  court, the trial court shall order the county in which the trial
   2-13  was held to pay the costs of preparing the statement of facts.
   2-14  <This section shall apply to any county with a population in excess
   2-15  of two million according to the most recent federal census.>"
   2-16                                                              Zbranek