By Dutton H.B. No. 1271 76R4732 JMM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the enforcement of an order for the payment of 1-3 attorney's fees in certain proceedings. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 6, Family Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 6.7085 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 6.7085. ATTORNEY'S FEES. Notwithstanding any other 1-8 provision of law, an award of attorney's fees in a proceeding under 1-9 this chapter is not enforceable by contempt. 1-10 SECTION 2. Section 106.002, Family Code, is amended by 1-11 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-12 (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an award of 1-13 attorney's fees in a proceeding under this title is not enforceable 1-14 by contempt. 1-15 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-16 applies only to an award of attorney's fees made on or after that 1-17 date. An award of attorney's fees made before the effective date 1-18 of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the award 1-19 was made, and the former law is continued in effect for that 1-20 purpose. 1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.