By:  Schechter                                        H.B. No. 1297
       73R5742 E
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to persons appointed as friend of the court in cases
    1-3  involving child support or possession of or access to a child.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 14.91, Family Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  In the execution of a friend of the court's duties under
    1-8  this subchapter, a friend of the court shall represent the court to
    1-9  ensure compliance with the court's order.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  Section 14.96, Family Code, is repealed.
   1-11        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-12        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.