73R3087 SMH-F
          By Goodman                                             H.B. No. 600
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the monthly charge by a domestic relations office from
    1-3  each managing and possessory conservator for whom the office
    1-4  provides services.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 151.008(a), Human Resources Code, is
    1-7  amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  The commissioners court of a county may authorize a
    1-9  domestic relations office to assess and collect:
   1-10              (1)  a filing fee of not more than $5 for each suit
   1-11  filed in the county for the dissolution of a marriage or affecting
   1-12  the parent-child relationship;
   1-13              (2)  attorney's fees and court costs incurred by the
   1-14  office in enforcing an order for child support or visitation
   1-15  against the party found to be in violation of the order;
   1-16              (3)  an application fee from a person requesting
   1-17  services from the office; and
   1-18              (4)  a monthly charge of not more than $2 <$1> from
   1-19  each managing and possessory conservator for whom the office
   1-20  provides services.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-22  applies only to charges under Section 151.008(a), Human Resources
   1-23  Code, due on or after that date.  A charge under that section due
   1-24  before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in
    2-1  effect when the charge was due, and that law is continued in effect
    2-2  for that purpose.
    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.