By Lindsay S.B. No. 609 Substitute the following for S.B. No. 609: By Goodman C.S.S.B. No. 609 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the duties of an attorney ad litem 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 107.014(b), Family Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (b) An attorney ad litem appointed to represent a child 1-8 shall within a reasonable time after the appointment: 1-9 (1) interview the child if the child is four years of 1-10 age or older; 1-11 (2) interview individuals with significant knowledge 1-12 of the child's history and condition, including the child's foster 1-13 parents; and 1-14 (3) interview all parties to the suit. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-16 applies only to an attorney ad litem appointed on or after that 1-17 date. An attorney ad litem appointed before the effective date of 1-18 this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the attorney 1-19 ad litem was appointed, and the former law is continued in effect 1-20 for that purpose. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.