By:  Pitts                                             H.B. No. 497
       73R1758 MJW-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a child support agency's report of delinquent child
    1-3  support to a credit reporting bureau.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 14, Family Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Section 14.46 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 14.46.  REPORT OF DELINQUENT CHILD SUPPORT TO CREDIT
    1-8  BUREAU.  (a)  On determination by a court under this subchapter
    1-9  that an obligor is delinquent in the payment of child support, the
   1-10  child support agency with primary responsibility for enforcing the
   1-11  support obligation shall report the fact of delinquency to a credit
   1-12  reporting bureau that provides credit information in the county in
   1-13  which the child support agency is located.
   1-14        (b)  In this section:
   1-15              (1)  "Child support agency" has the meaning assigned by
   1-16  Section 14.80 of this code.
   1-17              (2)  "Credit reporting bureau" means a person or
   1-18  organization engaging in the practice of assembling or reporting
   1-19  credit information on individuals for the purpose of furnishing
   1-20  such information to third parties.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-22  applies only to a child support payment that is determined by a
   1-23  court to be delinquent and that is unpaid on or after the Act's
   1-24  effective date.  This Act does not apply to a child support payment
    2-1  that is determined by a court to be delinquent but that is paid
    2-2  before the Act's effective date.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.