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.