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.