By Davis of Harris                                    H.B. No. 2990
         76R12226 MCK-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the enforcement of an order for possession of or access
 1-3     to a child.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 157.168(a), Family Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  A court may order additional periods of possession of or
 1-8     access to a child to compensate for the denial of court-ordered
 1-9     possession or access.  The additional periods of possession or
1-10     access:
1-11                 (1)  must be of the same type and duration of the
1-12     possession or access that was denied;
1-13                 (2)  may include weekend, holiday, and summer
1-14     possession or access; and
1-15                 (3)  must occur on or before the second [first]
1-16     anniversary of the date the court finds that court-ordered
1-17     possession or access has been denied.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-19     applies to a motion for enforcement pending on or filed on or after
1-20     that date.
1-21           SECTION 3.  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.