By Smith H.B. No. 3346
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to child's choice of managing conservator in a suit
1-3 affecting the parent-child relationship.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 153.008, Family Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 If the child is (10) [12] years of age or older, the child
1-8 may, by writing filed with the court, choose the managing
1-9 conservator, subject to the approval of the court.
1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.