By:  Harris                                           S.B. No. 1741
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to removal of the disabilities of minority.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 31.005, Family Code, is amended to read
 1-4     as follows:
 1-5           Sec. 31.005.  ORDER.  The court by order, or the Texas
 1-6     Supreme Court by rule or order, may remove the disabilities of
 1-7     minority of a minor, including any restriction imposed by Chapter
 1-8     32, if the court or the Texas Supreme Court finds the removal to be
 1-9     in the best interest of the petitioner.  The order or rule must
1-10     state the limited or general purposes for which disabilities are
1-11     removed.
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.