1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1022
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 April 6, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 6, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Henderson x
1-10 Harris of Tarrant x
1-11 Brown x
1-12 Harris of Dallas x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Parker x
1-15 West x
1-16 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1022 By: Luna
1-17 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-18 AN ACT
1-19 relating to court-ordered fees in Bexar County in cases related to
1-20 the parent-child relationship.
1-21 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-22 SECTION 1. Subsections (d), (e), and (f), Section 152.0214,
1-23 Human Resources Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-24 (d) The commissioners court by order may provide for the
1-25 collection of a fee in an amount set by the commissioners court not
1-26 to exceed $15 on the filing in the county of:
1-27 (1) a suit for the dissolution of a marriage, if the
1-28 suit affects the parent-child relationship;
1-29 (2) a suit affecting the parent-child relationship or
1-30 a motion to modify a decree in such a suit; and
1-31 (3) a petition for further action relating to a child.
1-32 (e) The commissioners court shall use the fee collected
1-33 under Subsection (d) to provide additional funding for legal
1-34 services necessary to provide any of the services authorized by
1-35 this section. The commissioners court by order may waive the fee
1-36 for governmental agencies, private adoption agencies, or charitable
1-37 organizations.
1-38 (f) The commissioners court by order may provide for the
1-39 collection of a <child support services> fee to fund any of the
1-40 services authorized by this section in an amount set by the
1-41 commissioners court not to exceed $36 on the filing in the county
1-42 of:
1-43 (1) a suit for the dissolution of a marriage, if the
1-44 suit affects the parent-child relationship;
1-45 (2) a suit affecting the parent-child relationship or
1-46 a motion to modify a decree in a suit affecting the parent-child
1-47 relationship; and
1-48 (3) a petition for further action relating to a child.
1-49 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-50 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-51 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-52 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-53 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-54 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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1-56 Austin,
1-57 Texas
1-58 April 6, 1993
1-59 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-60 President of the Senate
1-61 Sir:
1-62 We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred S.B. No.
1-63 1022, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
1-64 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
1-65 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
1-66 pass and be printed.
1-67 Henderson,
1-68 Chairman
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2-2 WITNESSES
2-3 FOR AGAINST ON
2-4 ___________________________________________________________________
2-5 Name: Howard G. Baldwin x
2-6 Representing: Atty General of Tx
2-7 City: Austin
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2-9 Name: Herman C. Wolf x
2-10 Representing: Bexar County
2-11 City: San Antonio
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