By Harris                                             S.B. No. 1594
          Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1594:
          By Cook                                           C.S.S.B. No. 1594
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the joint managing conservatorship of a child.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 153.131, Family Code, as added by House
    1-5  Bill 655, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 153.131.  PRESUMPTION THAT PARENT TO BE APPOINTED
    1-8  MANAGING CONSERVATOR.  (a)  Unless the court finds that appointment
    1-9  of the parent or parents would not be in the best interest of the
   1-10  child because the appointment would significantly impair the
   1-11  child's physical health or emotional development, a parent shall be
   1-12  appointed sole managing conservator or both parents shall be
   1-13  appointed as joint managing conservators of the child.
   1-14        (b)  It is a rebuttable presumption that the appointment of
   1-15  the parents as joint managing conservators is in the best interest
   1-16  of the child.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-18  applies to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship:
   1-19        (1)  pending on that date; or
   1-20        (2)  filed on or after that date.
   1-21        (b)  The enactment of this Act does not by itself constitute
   1-22  a material and substantial change of circumstances sufficient to
   1-23  warrant modification under Chapter 156, Family Code, of a court
   1-24  order or portion of a decree that provides for the appointment of a
    2-1  conservator or that sets the terms and conditions of
    2-2  conservatorship entered before the effective date of this Act.
    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.