By Staples H.B. No. 2215 75R7347 MCK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to court-ordered family counseling for conflicts regarding 1-3 issues of conservatorship or possession of or access to a child. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 153.010, Family Code, is amended to read 1-6 as follows: 1-7 Sec. 153.010. ORDER FOR FAMILY COUNSELING. If the court 1-8 finds at the time of a hearing that the parties have a history of 1-9 conflict in resolving an issue of conservatorship or possession of 1-10 or access to the child, the court may order a party to: 1-11 (1) participate in counseling with a person appointed 1-12 by the court who is a licensed marriage and family therapist under 1-13 the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act (Article 4512c-1, 1-14 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) and who is trained in issues of 1-15 domestic violence; and 1-16 (2) pay the cost of counseling. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 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.