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.