1-1     By:  Reyna of Bexar (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)          H.B. No. 3786
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 1999;
 1-3     May 14, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the transfer of certain proceedings in a suit affecting
 1-9     the parent-child relationship.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 155.201, Family Code, is amended by
1-12     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-13           (c)  If a suit to modify or a motion to enforce an order is
1-14     pending at the time a subsequent suit to modify or motion to
1-15     enforce is filed, the court may transfer the proceeding as provided
1-16     by Subsection (b) only if the court could have transferred the
1-17     proceeding at the time the first motion or suit was filed.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-19     applies to a suit to modify or a motion to enforce an order in a
1-20     suit affecting the parent-child relationship pending on or after
1-21     that date.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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