By: Harris S.B. No. 1816
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to terms of community supervision for violation of an
1-2 order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 157.212, Family Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 Sec. 157.212. TERM OF COMMUNITY SUPERVISION. The community
1-7 supervision period may not exceed 10 [five] years.
1-8 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-9 applies only to an order providing for community supervision that
1-10 is rendered on or after that date. An order that is rendered
1-11 before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
1-12 effect on the date the order was rendered, and the former law is
1-13 continued in effect for that purpose.
1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.