1-1  By:  Harris                                            S.B. No. 512
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 9, 1995; February 13, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
    1-4  April 11, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 11, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                 By:  Cain
    1-7  Amend S.B. No. 512 as follows:
    1-8        (1)  On page 1, line 12 (committee printing page 1, line 22),
    1-9  strike the word "shall" and replace with the words "may <shall>".
   1-10                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-11                                AN ACT
   1-12  relating to payment for a statement of facts in a suit affecting
   1-13  the parent-child relationship.
   1-14        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-15        SECTION 1.  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
   1-25  of two million according to the most recent federal census.>
   1-26        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-27  applies only to payment for a statement of facts in a suit
   1-28  affecting the parent-child relationship in which an affidavit
   1-29  stating a party's inability to pay costs is filed on or after the
   1-30  effective date of this Act.
   1-31        (b)  Payment for a statement of facts in a suit affecting the
   1-32  parent-child relationship in which an affidavit stating a party's
   1-33  inability to pay costs is filed before the effective date of this
   1-34  Act is covered by the law in effect when the affidavit was filed,
   1-35  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-36        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-37  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-38  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-39  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-40  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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