By Ellis S.B. No. 1711 76R5519 KLA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a suit for modification of an order that designates a 1-3 sole or joint managing conservator of a child. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 156, Family Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 156.007 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 156.007. PRESUMPTION OF JOINT MANAGING CONSERVATORSHIP. 1-8 (a) In a suit for modification under Subchapter B or C, the court 1-9 shall consider that it is a rebuttable presumption that the 1-10 appointment of the parents of the child as joint managing 1-11 conservators is in the best interest of the child. 1-12 (b) A finding of a history of family violence involving the 1-13 parents of a child removes the presumption under this section. 1-14 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-15 applies to a suit for modification of an order providing for 1-16 conservatorship of a child pending on that date or filed on or 1-17 after that date. 1-18 (b) The enactment of this Act does not by itself constitute 1-19 a material and substantial change of circumstances under Chapter 1-20 156, Family Code, sufficient to warrant modification of a court 1-21 order or portion of a decree that provides for the appointment of a 1-22 conservator rendered before the effective date of this Act. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.