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.