1-1 By: Goodman (Senate Sponsor - Harris of Tarrant) H.B. No. 600
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 5, 1993;
1-3 April 5, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; April 20, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0;
1-6 April 20, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Henderson x
1-10 Harris of Tarrant x
1-11 Brown x
1-12 Harris of Dallas x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Parker x
1-15 West x
1-16 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 600 By: Harris of Tarrant
1-17 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-18 AN ACT
1-19 relating to fees and the monthly charge by a domestic relations
1-20 office from each managing and possessory conservator for whom the
1-21 office provides services.
1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23 SECTION 1. Section 151.008, Human Resources Code, is amended
1-24 to read as follows:
1-25 Section 151.008. Fees and Charges
1-26 (a) The commissioners court of a county may authorize a
1-27 domestic relations office to assess and collect:
1-28 (1) a filing fee of not more than $5 for each suit
1-29 filed in the county for the dissolution of a marriage or affecting
1-30 the parent-child relationship;
1-31 (2) attorney's fees and court costs incurred by the
1-32 office in enforcing an order for child support or visitation
1-33 against the party found to be in violation of the order;
1-34 (3) an application fee from a person requesting
1-35 services from the office; and
1-36 (4) a monthly charge of not more that $2 <$1> from
1-37 each managing and possessory conservator to fund any of the
1-38 services provided by <for whom> the office <provides services>.
1-39 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-40 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-41 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-42 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-43 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-44 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-45 * * * * *
1-46 Austin,
1-47 Texas
1-48 April 20, 1993
1-49 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-50 President of the Senate
1-51 Sir:
1-52 We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B. No.
1-53 600, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
1-54 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
1-55 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
1-56 pass and be printed.
1-57 Henderson,
1-58 Chairman
1-59 * * * * *
1-60 WITNESSES
1-61 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 600.