1-1 By: Rangel (Senate Sponsor - Harris of Tarrant) H.B. No. 2185
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1993;
1-3 April 27, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 25, 1993, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 25, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Henderson x
1-9 Harris of Tarrant x
1-10 Brown x
1-11 Harris of Dallas x
1-12 Luna x
1-13 Parker x
1-14 West x
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to findings in child support orders.
1-18 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-19 SECTION 1. Section 14.057(a), Family Code, is amended to
1-20 read as follows:
1-21 (a) Without regard to Rules 296 through 299, Texas Rules of
1-22 Civil Procedure, in any suit affecting the parent-child
1-23 relationship or reciprocal child support action in which child
1-24 support is contested and the amount of the support <order> is set
1-25 or modified by the court, on written request made or filed with the
1-26 court not later than 10 days after the date of the hearing or an
1-27 oral request made in open court during the hearing, the court shall
1-28 state the following in the child support order:
1-29 "(1) the amount of net resources available to the
1-30 obligor per month is $________;
1-31 "(2) the amount of net resources available to the
1-32 obligee per month is $________;
1-33 "(3) the amount of child support payments per month
1-34 that is computed if Section 14.055, Family Code, is applied is
1-35 $_______;
1-36 "(4) the percentage applied to the obligor's net
1-37 resources for child support by the actual order rendered by the
1-38 court is _______%; and, if applicable,
1-39 "(5) the specific reasons that the amount of support
1-40 per month ordered by the court varies from the amount computed by
1-41 applying the percentage guidelines pursuant to Section 14.055,
1-42 Family Code, are:_________."
1-43 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
1-44 applies to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship or a
1-45 reciprocal child support action without regard to whether the suit
1-46 or action was filed before, on, or after that date.
1-47 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-48 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-49 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-50 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-51 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-52 * * * * *
1-53 Austin,
1-54 Texas
1-55 May 25, 1993
1-56 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-57 President of the Senate
1-58 Sir:
1-59 We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B.
1-60 No. 2185, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-61 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-62 that it do pass and be printed.
1-63 Henderson,
1-64 Chairman
1-65 * * * * *
1-66 WITNESSES
1-67 FOR AGAINST ON
1-68 ___________________________________________________________________
2-1 Name: Stuart Miller x
2-2 Representing: Texas Fathers
2-3 City: Austin
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2-5 Name: David A. Shelton x
2-6 Representing: Fathers for Equal Rights
2-7 City: Venus
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2-9 Name: George Janicek x
2-10 Representing: Fathers for Equal Rights
2-11 City: Irving
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