By McReynolds H.B. No. 2227 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to additional periods of possession or access to a child. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 157.168, Family Code, is amended to read 1-5 as follows: 1-6 Sec. 157.168. ADDITIONAL PERIODS OF POSSESSION OR ACCESS. 1-7 (a) A court may order additional periods of possession of or 1-8 access to a child to compensate for the denial of court-ordered 1-9 possession or access. The additional periods of possession or 1-10 access: 1-11 (1) must be of the same type and duration of the 1-12 possession or access that was denied; 1-13 (2) may include weekend, holiday, and summer 1-14 possession or access; and 1-15 (3) must occur on or before the first anniversary of 1-16 the date the court finds that court-ordered possession or access 1-17 has been denied. 1-18 (b) The person denied possession or access is entitled to 1-19 decide the time of the additional possession or access, subject to 1-20 the provisions of Subsection (a)(1). 1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-22 applies only to an order for additional periods of possession of or 1-23 access to a child made on or after that date. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.