1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to standard possession orders in suits affecting the
1-3 parent-child relationship.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 153.312(a), Family Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) If the possessory conservator resides 100 miles or less
1-8 from the primary residence of the child, the possessory conservator
1-9 shall have the right to possession of the child as follows:
1-10 (1) on weekends beginning at 6 p.m. on the first,
1-11 third, and fifth Friday of each month and ending at 6 p.m. on the
1-12 following Sunday or, at the possessory conservator's election made
1-13 before or at the time of the rendition of the original or
1-14 modification order, and as specified in the original or
1-15 modification order, beginning at the time the child's school is
1-16 regularly dismissed and ending at 6 p.m. on the following Sunday;
1-17 and
1-18 (2) on Wednesdays of each week during the regular
1-19 school term beginning at 6 p.m. and ending at 8 p.m., or, at the
1-20 possessory conservator's election made before or at the time of the
1-21 rendition of the original or modification order, and as specified
1-22 in the original or modification order, beginning at the time the
1-23 child's school is regularly dismissed and ending at the time the
1-24 child's school resumes, unless the court finds that visitation
2-1 under this subdivision is not in the best interest of the child [at
2-2 8 p.m].
2-3 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
2-4 applies only to a possession order rendered on or after that date.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3012 was passed by the House on April
30, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 3012 on May 24, 1997, by a non-record
vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3012 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 22, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor