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.