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.