By:  Hill                                             H.B. No. 2154
       73R1377 MJW-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the requirement that a parent reimburse the state for
    1-3  public assistance payments received because of delinquent child
    1-4  support.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 14.062, Family Code, is amended by adding
    1-7  Subsection (c) to read as follows:
    1-8        (c)  A court that requires reimbursement under this section
    1-9  shall determine whether public assistance for the support of a
   1-10  child was paid because of an obligor's failure or refusal to pay
   1-11  court-ordered child support.   If the court finds that public
   1-12  assistance was paid because court-ordered child support was not
   1-13  paid, the court may require only the delinquent obligor to
   1-14  reimburse the state.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-16  applies only to a court order for reimbursement that is issued on
   1-17  or after that date.  A court order issued before the effective date
   1-18  of this Act is governed by the law then in effect, and the former
   1-19  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.