By Harris                                              S.B. No. 512
          Substitute the following for S.B. No. 512:
          By Goodman                                         C.S.S.B. No. 512
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to payment for a statement of facts in a suit affecting
    1-3  the parent-child relationship.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 109.003, Family Code, as added by House
    1-6  Bill 655, Acts of the 74th Legislature, 1995, is amended to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        Sec. 109.003.  PAYMENT FOR STATEMENT OF FACTS.  <(a)>  If the
    1-9  party requesting a statement of facts in an appeal of a suit has
   1-10  filed an affidavit stating the party's inability to pay costs as
   1-11  provided by Rule 40, Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, and the
   1-12  affidavit is approved by the trial court, the trial court may
   1-13  <shall> order the county in which the trial was held to pay the
   1-14  costs of preparing the statement of facts.
   1-15        <(b)  This section applies to a county with a population in
   1-16  excess of two million.>
   1-17        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-18  applies only to payment for a statement of facts in a suit
   1-19  affecting the parent-child relationship in which an affidavit
   1-20  stating a party's inability to pay costs is filed on or after the
   1-21  effective date of this Act.
   1-22        (b)  Payment for a statement of facts in a suit affecting the
   1-23  parent-child relationship in which an affidavit stating a party's
   1-24  inability to pay costs is filed before the effective date of this
    2-1  Act is covered by the law in effect when the affidavit was filed,
    2-2  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.