1-1 By: Davis of Harris (Senate Sponsor - Harris) H.B. No. 2990
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
1-3 April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the enforcement of an order for possession of or access
1-9 to a child.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. 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 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-25 applies to a motion for enforcement pending on or filed on or after
1-26 that date.
1-27 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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