By Isett                                              H.B. No. 2829
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the dissolution of a marriage on the grounds of
 1-3     insupportability.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 6, Family Code, is amended
 1-6     by adding Section 6.009 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 6.009.  DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:
 1-8                 (1)  "Conflict" means the mental struggle resulting
 1-9     from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or external or
1-10     internal demands.
1-11                 (2)  "Destroy" means to ruin the structure, organic
1-12     existence, or condition of a thing.
1-13                 (3)  "Discord" means active quarreling, strife, or lack
1-14     of agreement or harmony.
1-15                 (4)  "Insupportable" means more than can be endured or
1-16     impossible to justify.
1-17                 (5)  "Legitimate" means conforming to recognized
1-18     principles or accepted rules and standards.
1-19                 (6)  "Legitimate ends of the marital relationship"
1-20     include:
1-21                       (A)  the intimate relationship between a husband
1-22     and wife;
1-23                       (B)  the establishment of a home to raise
1-24     children;
 2-1                       (C)  the exercise by both parents of their
 2-2     parental rights; and
 2-3                       (D)  the provision of a stable environment for a
 2-4     child.
 2-5                 (7)  "Marital relationship" means the state of affairs
 2-6     existing between persons who are married to one another.
 2-7                 (8)  "Personality" means the totality of an
 2-8     individual's behavioral and emotional characteristics.
 2-9                 (9)  "Reconciliation" means the restoration of
2-10     friendship or harmony.
2-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
2-12     applies only to a suit for dissolution of a marriage filed on or
2-13     after that date.  A suit filed before the effective date of this
2-14     Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the suit was
2-15     filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.