1-1 By: Haywood, Ellis S.B. No. 1384 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 19, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; 1-4 May 18, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1384 By: Harris A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to counseling for certain persons in a suit for divorce or 1-10 a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 6.505, Family Code, as added by S.B. No. 1-13 334, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, is 1-14 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-15 (e) If the court orders counseling under this section and 1-16 the parties to the marriage are the parents of a child under 18 1-17 years of age born or adopted during the marriage, the counseling 1-18 shall include counseling on issues that confront children who are 1-19 the subject of a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-21 applies only to a suit filed on or after that date. A suit filed 1-22 before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in 1-23 effect at the time the suit was filed, and the former law is 1-24 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-25 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-30 * * * * *