By: Haywood, Ellis S.B. No. 1384 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to counseling for certain persons in a suit for divorce or 1-2 a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 6.505, Family Code, as added by S.B. No. 1-5 334, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (e) If the court orders counseling under this section and 1-8 the parties to the marriage are the parents of a child under 18 1-9 years of age born or adopted during the marriage, the counseling 1-10 shall include counseling on issues that confront children who are 1-11 the subject of a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-13 applies only to a suit filed on or after that date. A suit filed 1-14 before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in 1-15 effect at the time the suit was filed, and the former law is 1-16 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.