By Rodriguez H.B. No. 2113 75R3068 DAK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the appearance at a justice or municipal court hearing 1-3 for a child accused of committing certain misdemeanors of the 1-4 parent, managing conservator, or guardian of the child; providing a 1-5 penalty. 1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-7 SECTION 1. Section 54.022, Family Code, is amended by adding 1-8 Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-9 (h) A person commits an offense if the person is a parent, 1-10 managing conservator, or a guardian who receives an order under 1-11 Subsection (e) to appear personally at the hearing with the child 1-12 and who fails to appear at the hearing. An offense under this 1-13 subsection is a Class C misdemeanor. 1-14 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-15 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to the 1-16 failure to appear at a hearing for which an order to appear is 1-17 issued by a court on or after the effective date of this Act. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.