74R10537 E By Thompson, et al. H.B. No. 170 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the requirement that certain child support payments be 1-3 forwarded by electronic funds transfer. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 154.242(b), Family Code, as added by H.B. 1-6 No. 655, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is 1-7 amended to read as follows: 1-8 (b) A local registry may transmit child support payments to 1-9 the Title IV-D agency by electronic funds transfer if the Title 1-10 IV-D agency agrees to accept electronic payment. An obligor may 1-11 make payments, with the approval of the court entering the order, 1-12 directly to the bank account of the obligee by electronic transfer 1-13 and provide verification of the deposit to the local registry. A 1-14 local registry in a county that makes deposits into personal bank 1-15 accounts by electronic funds transfer as of April 1, 1995, shall 1-16 transmit a child support payment to an obligee by electronic funds 1-17 transfer if the obligee maintains a bank account. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1996. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.