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By Davis of Harris H.B. No. 2990
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2990:
By Goodman C.S.H.B. No. 2990
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.