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.