By:  Harris                                           S.B. No. 1192
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to providing notice of a violation before filing certain
 1-2     suits relating to interference with a possessory interest in a
 1-3     child.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 42.007, Family Code, is amended to read
 1-6     as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 42.007.  AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE.  The defendant may plead
 1-8     as an affirmative defense that[:]
 1-9                 [(1)]  the defendant acted in violation of the order
1-10     with the express consent of the plaintiff[; or]
1-11                 [(2)  after receiving notice of an alleged violation,
1-12     the defendant promptly and fully complied with the order].
1-13           SECTION 2.  Section 42.004, Family Code, is repealed.
1-14           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-15     applies only to a suit for interference with a possessory interest
1-16     in a child that is pending on or filed on or after that date.
1-17           SECTION 4.  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.