By Dutton H.B. No. 2184 76R514 MCK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a parent's right to discipline a child. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 151.003, Family Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-6 (e) A parent may use corporal punishment for the reasonable 1-7 discipline of a child. 1-8 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-14 passage, and it is so enacted.