By Goodman H.B. No. 2439
76R2150 CMR-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the modification of an order that designates a sole
1-3 managing conservator for a child.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 156.104(a), Family Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) The court may modify an order that designates a sole
1-8 managing conservator if a parent of the child requests appointment
1-9 as a joint managing conservator and the court finds that:
1-10 (1) the circumstances of the child or the sole
1-11 managing conservator have materially and substantially changed
1-12 since the rendition of the order; and
1-13 (2) [retention of a sole managing conservatorship
1-14 would be detrimental to the welfare of the child; and]
1-15 [(3)] the appointment of the parent as a joint
1-16 managing conservator would be a positive improvement for and in the
1-17 best interest of the child.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-19 applies to a suit for modification of an order providing for
1-20 conservatorship of a child pending on that date or filed on or
1-21 after that date.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.