By Reyna of Bexar H.B. No. 3786 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the transfer of certain proceedings in a suit affecting 1-3 the parent-child relationship. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 155.201, Family Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) If a suit to modify or a motion to enforce an order is 1-8 pending at the time a subsequent suit to modify or motion to 1-9 enforce is filed, the court may transfer the proceeding as provided 1-10 by Subsection (b) only if the court could have transferred the 1-11 proceeding at the time the first motion or suit was filed. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-13 applies to a suit to modify or a motion to enforce an order in a 1-14 suit affecting the parent-child relationship pending on or after 1-15 that date. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.