S.B. No. 512
AN ACT
1-1 relating to payment for a statement of facts in a suit affecting
1-2 the parent-child relationship.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 109.003, Family Code, as added by H.B.
1-5 No. 655, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 109.003. PAYMENT FOR STATEMENT OF FACTS. (a) If the
1-8 party requesting a statement of facts in an appeal of a suit has
1-9 filed an affidavit stating the party's inability to pay costs as
1-10 provided by Rule 40, Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, and the
1-11 affidavit is approved by the trial court, the trial court may
1-12 <shall> order the county in which the trial was held to pay the
1-13 costs of preparing the statement of facts.
1-14 (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit an
1-15 official court reporter to be paid more than once for the
1-16 preparation of the statement of facts. <This section applies to a
1-17 county with a population in excess of two million.>
1-18 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
1-19 applies only to payment for a statement of facts in a suit
1-20 affecting the parent-child relationship in which an affidavit
1-21 stating a party's inability to pay costs is filed on or after the
1-22 effective date of this Act.
1-23 (b) Payment for a statement of facts in a suit affecting the
1-24 parent-child relationship in which an affidavit stating a party's
2-1 inability to pay costs is filed before the effective date of this
2-2 Act is covered by the law in effect when the affidavit was filed,
2-3 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.