S.B. No. 1022
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to court-ordered fees in Bexar County in cases related to
    1-2  the parent-child relationship.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsections (d), (e), and (f), Section 152.0214,
    1-5  Human Resources Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (d)  The commissioners court by order may provide for the
    1-7  collection of a fee in an amount set by the commissioners court not
    1-8  to exceed $15 on the filing in the county of:
    1-9              (1)  a suit for the dissolution of a marriage, if the
   1-10  suit affects the parent-child relationship;
   1-11              (2)  a suit affecting the parent-child relationship or
   1-12  a motion to modify a decree in such a suit; and
   1-13              (3)  a petition for further action relating to a child.
   1-14        (e)  The commissioners court shall use the fee collected
   1-15  under Subsection (d) to provide additional funding for legal
   1-16  services necessary to provide any of the services authorized by
   1-17  this section.  The commissioners court by order may waive the fee
   1-18  for governmental agencies, private adoption agencies, or charitable
   1-19  organizations.
   1-20        (f)  The commissioners court by order may provide for the
   1-21  collection of a <child support services> fee to fund any of the
   1-22  services authorized by this section in an amount set by the
   1-23  commissioners court not to exceed $36 on the filing in the county
    2-1  of:
    2-2              (1)  a suit for the dissolution of a marriage, if the
    2-3  suit affects the parent-child relationship;
    2-4              (2)  a suit affecting the parent-child relationship or
    2-5  a motion to modify a decree in a suit affecting the parent-child
    2-6  relationship; and
    2-7              (3)  a petition for further action relating to a child.
    2-8        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.