By Reyna of Bexar H.B. No. 3786 76R8963 MCK-F 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.