By:  Cuellar, H.                                      H.B. No. 1192
       73R3471 JMM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the requirement that certain parents who are delinquent
    1-3  in child support payments participate in job training programs.
    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 14.35 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 14.35.  MANDATORY PARTICIPATION IN JOB TRAINING
    1-8  PROGRAMS.  (a)  An enforcement order under Section 14.33 of this
    1-9  code shall require, in addition to other provisions ordered by the
   1-10  court, that an obligor who is unemployed and has failed or refused
   1-11  to make a child support payment that was overdue at the time of the
   1-12  filing of the enforcement proceeding and unpaid at the time of the
   1-13  order participate in a program created under the Texas Job-Training
   1-14  Partnership Act (Article 4413(52), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
   1-15        (b)  The order shall include:
   1-16              (1)  the requirements that the obligor must fulfill in
   1-17  participating in the job-training program;
   1-18              (2)  the name, address, and telephone number of the
   1-19  individual or agency the obligor must contact to initiate the
   1-20  obligor's participation in the program;
   1-21              (3)  the manner in which the obligor must provide proof
   1-22  of participation and completion of a program to the court; and
   1-23              (4)  any other information necessary for the obligor to
   1-24  comply with the requirements of the order under this section.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
    2-2  applies only to an enforcement order entered to enforce a child
    2-3  support order that was entered or modified on or after that date.
    2-4        (b)  The enactment of this Act is not sufficient by itself to
    2-5  constitute a material and substantial change in the circumstances
    2-6  of a child for whose benefit a child support order has been entered
    2-7  to warrant modification of the order under Section 14.08, Family
    2-8  Code.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.