By McReynolds H.B. No. 2227
75R7564 SKB-D
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 shall [may] order additional periods of possession of
1-8 or 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.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-21 applies only to an order for additional periods of possession of or
1-22 access to a child made on or after that date.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.