73R4239 MJW-F
          By Rangel                                             H.B. No. 2185
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to findings in child support orders.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 14.057(a), Family Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  Without regard to Rules 296 through 299, Texas Rules of
    1-7  Civil Procedure, in any suit affecting the parent-child
    1-8  relationship or reciprocal child support action in which child
    1-9  support is contested and the amount of the support <order> is set
   1-10  or modified by the court, on written request made or filed with the
   1-11  court not later than 10 days after the date of the hearing or an
   1-12  oral request made in open court during the hearing, the court shall
   1-13  state the following in the child support order:
   1-14              "(1)  the amount of net resources available to the
   1-15  obligor per month is $________;
   1-16              "(2)  the amount of net resources available to the
   1-17  obligee per month is $________;
   1-18              "(3)  the amount of child support payments per month
   1-19  that is computed if Section 14.055, Family Code, is applied is
   1-20  $_______;
   1-21              "(4)  the percentage applied to the obligor's net
   1-22  resources for child support by the actual order rendered by the
   1-23  court is _______%; and, if applicable,
   1-24              "(5)  the specific reasons that the amount of support
    2-1  per month ordered by the court varies from the amount computed by
    2-2  applying the percentage guidelines pursuant to Section 14.055,
    2-3  Family Code, are:_________."
    2-4        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
    2-5  applies to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship or a
    2-6  reciprocal child support action without regard to whether the suit
    2-7  or action was filed before, on, or after that date.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.