By:  Harris of Tarrant                                S.B. No. 1399
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the making of a record or statement of facts in
    1-2  proceedings affecting the parent-child relationship.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 14.32, Family Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  Record <Court Reporter>.  An enforcement order under
    1-7  this subchapter may not be entered if a record of the proceedings
    1-8  is not made by a court reporter or as provided by Subchapter A,
    1-9  Chapter 54, Government Code, unless:
   1-10              (1)  the parties agree on entry of the order; or
   1-11              (2)  when the motion does not seek <if the order seeks>
   1-12  incarceration, the parties waive the requirement of a record at the
   1-13  time of the hearing, either in writing or in open court and with
   1-14  the approval of the court.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Section 11.191, Family Code, is amended to read
   1-16  as follows:
   1-17        Sec. 11.191.  PAYMENT FOR STATEMENT OF FACTS.  If the party
   1-18  requesting a statement of facts in an appeal of a suit affecting
   1-19  the parent-child relationship has filed an affidavit stating the
   1-20  party's inability to pay costs as provided by Rule 40, Texas Rules
   1-21  of Appellate Procedure, and the affidavit is approved by the trial
   1-22  court, the trial court shall order the county in which the trial
   1-23  was held to pay the costs of preparing the statement of facts.
   1-24  <This section shall apply to any county with a population in excess
    2-1  of two million according to the most recent federal census.>
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The change in the law made by this Act applies to
    2-3  a proceeding under Subchapter B, Chapter 14, Family Code, in which
    2-4  a hearing has not been held before the effective date of this Act.
    2-5        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-6        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.