1-1     By:  King of Parker (Senate Sponsor - Harris)          H.B. No. 997
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 19, 2001;
 1-3     March 20, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Jurisprudence; April 24, 2001, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 24, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the time in which a court may conduct a hearing or
 1-9     render a final order in a suit to terminate the parent-child
1-10     relationship.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1. Section 161.201, Family Code, is repealed.
1-13           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and
1-14     applies only to a suit to terminate the parent-child relationship
1-15     filed on or after that date.  A suit to terminate the parent-child
1-16     relationship filed before the effective date of this Act is
1-17     governed by the law in effect on the date the suit was filed, and
1-18     the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
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