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.
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   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
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   1-60                               WITNESSES
   1-61  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 600.