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Amend CSSB 817 (senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill:
SECTION ____. Section 153.005, Family Code, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(a) In a suit, except as provided by Section 153.004, the court:
(1) may appoint a sole managing conservator or may appoint joint managing conservators; and
(2) if [. If] the parents are or will be separated, [the court] shall appoint at least one managing conservator.
(c) In making an appointment authorized by this section, the court shall consider whether, preceding the filing of the suit or during the pendency of the suit:
(1) a party engaged in a history or pattern of family violence, as defined by Section 71.004;
(2) a party engaged in a history or pattern of child abuse or child neglect; or
(3) a final protective order was rendered against a party.
SECTION ____. Section 153.005, Family Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the suit is filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
(2) In SECTION 3 of the bill (page 1, line 54), between "this Act" and "apply only", insert "to Sections 71.0021 and 71.004, Family Code,".
(3) Renumber existing SECTIONS of the bill accordingly.