By: Danburg H.B. No. 1775 73R5706 MJW-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the qualifications for appointment as managing 1-3 conservator of a child. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 14.01(c), Family Code, is amended to read 1-6 as follows: 1-7 (c) In determining which parent to appoint as sole managing 1-8 conservator, the court shall consider: 1-9 (1) the qualifications of the respective parents 1-10 without regard to the sex, race, religion, or sexual orientation of 1-11 the parent; and 1-12 (2) evidence of the intentional use of abusive 1-13 physical force by a parent against his or her spouse or against any 1-14 person younger than 18 years of age committed within a two-year 1-15 period preceding the filing of the petition for divorce or 1-16 annulment or during the pendency of the suit. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and 1-18 applies to the appointment of a sole managing conservator in a 1-19 pending suit affecting the parent-child relationship without regard 1-20 to whether the suit was filed before, on, or after the effective 1-21 date of this Act. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.