By Smith H.B. No. 753
76R2948 CMR-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a 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 Sec. 153.008. CHILD'S CHOICE OF MANAGING CONSERVATOR. If the
1-8 child is 10 [12] years of age or older, the child may, by writing
1-9 filed with the court, choose the managing conservator, subject to
1-10 the approval of the court.
1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-12 applies only to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship
1-13 filed on or after that date. A suit affecting the parent-child
1-14 relationship filed before the effective date of this Act is
1-15 governed by the law in effect on the date the suit was filed, and
1-16 the former law is 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.