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.