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.