By: Goodman H.B. No. 1631
73R6133 JBN-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the award of, as a condition of contempt probation,
1-3 compensatory time of possession of and access to a child to a
1-4 person wrongfully denied possession or access.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Subsection (d)(1), Section 14.50, Family Code, is
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 (1) Conditions of Probation. If the court finds that
1-9 a person who has been ordered to allow the movant to possess and
1-10 have access to a child is in contempt of the court for the failure
1-11 or refusal to permit such possession and access, the court may
1-12 suspend commitment and place the person on probation on the
1-13 condition that the person shall allow the court-ordered rights of
1-14 possession and access and on other reasonable conditions that the
1-15 court requires.
1-16 The terms and conditions of probation may include but need
1-17 not be limited to the conditions that the probationer shall:
1-18 (A) report to the probation officer as directed;
1-19 (B) permit the probation officer to visit him at
1-20 his home or elsewhere;
1-21 (C) obtain counseling on financial planning,
1-22 budget management, alcohol or drug abuse, or other matters causing
1-23 the defendant to fail to permit the movant to possess or have
1-24 access to the child; <and>
2-1 (D) allow the movant who was denied possession
2-2 of and access to the child to have one or more periods of
2-3 possession of and access to the child, in addition to the periods
2-4 specified in the court order violated, to indemnify the movant for
2-5 the time of possession and access lost by reason of the violation,
2-6 not to exceed the actual time lost; and
2-7 (E) pay all court costs and attorney's fees set
2-8 by the court.
2-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-10 SECTION 3. 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.