1-1 By: McReynolds (Senate Sponsor - Harris) H.B. No. 2227 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 1997; 1-3 April 24, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Jurisprudence; May 15, 1997, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 15, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to additional periods of possession or access to a child. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Section 157.168, Family Code, is amended to read 1-11 as follows: 1-12 Sec. 157.168. ADDITIONAL PERIODS OF POSSESSION OR ACCESS. 1-13 (a) A court may order additional periods of possession of or 1-14 access to a child to compensate for the denial of court-ordered 1-15 possession or access. The additional periods of possession or 1-16 access: 1-17 (1) must be of the same type and duration of the 1-18 possession or access that was denied; 1-19 (2) may include weekend, holiday, and summer 1-20 possession or access; and 1-21 (3) must occur on or before the first anniversary of 1-22 the date the court finds that court-ordered possession or access 1-23 has been denied. 1-24 (b) The person denied possession or access is entitled to 1-25 decide the time of the additional possession or access, subject to 1-26 the provisions of Subsection (a)(1). 1-27 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-28 applies only to an order for additional periods of possession of or 1-29 access to a child made on or after that date. 1-30 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-35 * * * * *