By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1022
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to child support related court costs in Bexar County.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 152.0214(d), (e), and (f) are amended to
1-4 read as follows:
1-5 (d) The commissioners court by order may provide for the
1-6 collection of a fee in an amount set by the commissioners court not
1-7 to exceed $15 on the filing in the county of:
1-8 (1) a suit for the dissolution of a marriage, if the
1-9 suit affects the parent-child relationship;
1-10 (2) a suit affecting the parent-child relationship or
1-11 a motion to modify a decree in such a suit; and
1-12 (3) a petition for further action relating to a child.
1-13 (e) The commissioners court shall use the fee collected
1-14 under Subsection (d) to provide additional funding for legal
1-15 services necessary to provide any of the services authorized by
1-16 this Section. The commissioners court by order may waive the fee
1-17 for governmental agencies, private adoption agencies, or charitable
1-18 organizations.
1-19 (f) The commissioners court by order may provide for the
1-20 collection of a <child support services> fee to fund any of the
1-21 services authorized by this Section, in an amount set by the
1-22 commissioners court not to exceed $36 on the filing in the county
1-23 of:
2-1 (1) a suit for the dissolution of a marriage, if the
2-2 suit affects the parent-child relationship;
2-3 (2) a suit affecting the parent-child relationship or
2-4 a motion to modify a decree in a suit affecting the parent-child
2-5 relationship; and
2-6 (3) a petition for further action relating to a child.
2-7 SECTION 2. This act takes effect September 1, 1993.
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.