By Reyna of Bexar                                     H.B. No. 3786
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                                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 in another county in this state, the court may
1-10     transfer the proceeding as provided by Subsection (b) only if the
1-11     court could have transferred the proceeding at the time the first
1-12     motion or suit was filed.
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-14     applies to a suit to modify or a motion to enforce an order in a
1-15     suit affecting the parent-child relationship pending on or after
1-16     that date.
1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-22                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-23           Amend H.B. No. 3786, on page 1, line 9, by striking "in
1-24     another county in this state".
 2-1     76R9843 MCK-D                                               Goodman