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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3786 was passed by the House on May
         13, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3786 was passed by the Senate on May
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor