By: Combs H.B. No. 2234 73R6326 JBN-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to pleadings in a suit for the termination of the 1-3 parent-child relationship. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11.08, Family Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (e) A petition for the involuntary termination of the 1-8 parent-child relationship that alleges in the statutory language 1-9 each statutory ground for the termination relied on and that 1-10 alleges that the termination is in the best interest of the child 1-11 is sufficient without the necessity of specifying the underlying 1-12 facts. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.