By Goodman                                            H.B. No. 3269
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to standard possession guidelines.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 153.251, Family Code, is amended to read
 1-5     as follows:
 1-6           (c)  It is the policy of this state to consider the wishes of
 1-7     the child in ordering the terms of possession of a child.
 1-8           [(c)] (d)  It is preferable for all children in a family to
 1-9     be together during periods of possession.
1-10           [(d)] (e)  The standard possession order is designed to apply
1-11     to a child three years of age or older.
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.