By Harris                                              S.B. No. 512
       74R4333 MJW-F
                                 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 11.191, Family Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 11.191.  PAYMENT FOR STATEMENT OF FACTS.  If the party
    1-8  requesting a statement of facts in an appeal of a suit affecting
    1-9  the parent-child relationship has filed an affidavit stating the
   1-10  party's inability to pay costs as provided by Rule 40, Texas Rules
   1-11  of Appellate Procedure, and the affidavit is approved by the trial
   1-12  court, the trial court shall order the county in which the trial
   1-13  was held to pay the costs of preparing the statement of facts.
   1-14  <This section shall apply to any county with a population in excess
   1-15  of two million according to the most recent federal census.>
   1-16        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-17  applies only to payment for a statement of facts in a suit
   1-18  affecting the parent-child relationship in which an affidavit
   1-19  stating a party's inability to pay costs is filed on or after the
   1-20  effective date of this Act.
   1-21        (b)  Payment for a statement of facts in a suit affecting the
   1-22  parent-child relationship in which an affidavit stating a party's
   1-23  inability to pay costs is filed before the effective date of this
   1-24  Act is covered by the law in effect when the affidavit was filed,
    2-1  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.