1-1     By:  Thompson (Senate Sponsor - Jackson)              H.B. No. 2299
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 2001;
 1-3     April 9, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 1, 2001, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 1, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to communications between courts regarding simultaneous
 1-9     interstate child custody proceedings.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 152.110, Family Code, is amended by
1-12     amending Subsections (d) and (e) and adding Subsection (f) to read
1-13     as follows:
1-14           (d)  If proceedings involving the same parties are pending
1-15     simultaneously in a court of this state and a court of another
1-16     state, the court of this state shall inform the other court of the
1-17     simultaneous proceedings.  The court of this state shall request
1-18     that the other court hold the proceeding in that court in abeyance
1-19     until the court in this state conducts a hearing to determine
1-20     whether the court has jurisdiction over the proceeding.
1-21           (e)  Communication between courts on schedules, calendars,
1-22     court records, and similar matters may occur without informing the
1-23     parties.  A record need not be made of the communication.
1-24           (f) [(e)]  Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (e)
1-25     [(d)], a record must be made of any [a] communication under this
1-26     section.  The parties must be informed promptly of the
1-27     communication and granted access to the record.
1-28           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-29     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-30     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-31     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-32     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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