By Thompson H.B. No. 170 74R791 JMM-D 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 14.0502(b), Family Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (b) A local registry may transmit child support payments to 1-8 the attorney general by electronic funds transfer if the attorney 1-9 general agrees to accept electronic payment. A local registry in a 1-10 county having a population of 30,000 or more shall transmit a child 1-11 support payment to an obligee by electronic funds transfer if the 1-12 obligee maintains a bank account. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.