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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