By Davis of Harris H.B. No. 2990
76R8506 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 157.167, Family Code, is amended by
1-6 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-7 (c) If the court finds that the respondent has interfered
1-8 with the court's order for possession of or access to a child, the
1-9 court shall order the respondent to pay the movant's reasonable
1-10 attorney's fees and all court costs.
1-11 SECTION 2. Section 157.168(a), Family Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (a) A court may order additional periods of possession of or
1-14 access to a child to compensate for the denial of court-ordered
1-15 possession or access. The additional periods of possession or
1-16 access:
1-17 (1) must be of the same type and duration of the
1-18 possession or access that was denied;
1-19 (2) may include weekend, holiday, and summer
1-20 possession or access; and
1-21 (3) must occur on or before the second [first]
1-22 anniversary of the date the court finds that court-ordered
1-23 possession or access has been denied.
1-24 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
2-1 applies to a motion for enforcement pending on or filed on or after
2-2 that date.
2-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.