By West H.B. No. 586 76R470 JMM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the restriction of the parental rights of persons who 1-3 engage in certain criminal conduct. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 153, Family Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 153.014 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 153.014. APPOINTMENT OF PARENTS WHO ENGAGE IN CERTAIN 1-8 CRIMINAL CONDUCT PROHIBITED. (a) The court may not appoint a 1-9 parent as a managing conservator or possessory conservator of a 1-10 child if the court finds that: 1-11 (1) the parent has been convicted of an offense 1-12 committed under Section 22.011, 22.021, or 25.02, Penal Code; and 1-13 (2) as a direct result of the commission of the 1-14 offense by the parent, the victim of the offense became pregnant 1-15 with the parent's child. 1-16 (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a parent whose 1-17 conviction of an offense under Subsection (a)(1) is overturned 1-18 because of subsequent pardon based on proof of evidence or 1-19 acquittal by the court of criminal appeals. 1-20 (c) If a parent of a child is subject to Subsection (a), the 1-21 court may not appoint a person as managing conservator or 1-22 possessory conservator if the person is related to the parent: 1-23 (1) within the third degree by consanguinity; or 1-24 (2) within the third degree by affinity, unless the 2-1 person is related to the victim of the offense by consanguinity. 2-2 (d) A parent of a child who is subject to Subsection (a) 2-3 may be required to pay child support for the child under Chapter 2-4 154. 2-5 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 2-6 applies only to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship 2-7 commenced on or after that date. A suit affecting the parent-child 2-8 relationship filed before the effective date of this Act is 2-9 governed by the law in effect on the date the suit was commenced, 2-10 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.