H.B. No. 600
    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 to fund any of the
   1-20  services provided by <for whom> the office <provides services>.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.