78R7941 MCK-D

By:  Farrar                                                       H.B. No. 2858


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain hearings relating to a person placed on community supervision for violation of a court order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 157.216(b), Family Code, is amended to read as follows: (b) The hearing under this section may not be held later than the fifth [third] working day after the date the respondent is arrested. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003, and applies to a hearing for a person placed on community supervision on or after that date. The hearing for a person placed on community supervision before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the person was placed on supervision, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.