By: Granoff H.B. No. 1729
73R6053 DAK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the payment of child support for certain children
1-3 placed outside their homes.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 54.06, Family Code, is amended to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 Sec. 54.06. Judgments for Support. (a) At any stage of the
1-8 proceeding, when a child has been placed outside the child's <his>
1-9 home, the juvenile court, after giving the parent or other person
1-10 responsible for the child's support a reasonable opportunity to be
1-11 heard, shall order the parent or other person to pay in a manner
1-12 directed by the court a reasonable sum for the support in whole or
1-13 in part of the child <or the court shall waive the payment by
1-14 order>. The court shall order that the payment for support be made
1-15 to the local juvenile probation department to be used only for
1-16 residential care and other support for the child unless the child
1-17 has been committed to the Texas Youth Commission, in which case the
1-18 court shall order that the payment be made to the Texas Youth
1-19 Commission for deposit to the general revenue fund <General Revenue
1-20 Fund>.
1-21 (b) At any stage of the proceeding, when a child has been
1-22 placed outside the child's home and the parent of the child is
1-23 obligated to pay support for the child under a court order under
1-24 Title 2 of this code, the juvenile court shall order that the
2-1 person entitled to receive the support assign the person's right to
2-2 support to the local juvenile probation department to be used for
2-3 residential care and other support for the child or to the Texas
2-4 Youth Commission for deposit to the general revenue fund.
2-5 (c) Orders for support may be enforced as provided in
2-6 Section 54.07 of this code.
2-7 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
2-8 applies to the placement of a child outside the child's home under
2-9 Title 3, Family Code, without regard to whether the proceedings
2-10 relating to the child under that title began before, on, or after
2-11 that date.
2-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.