1-1 By: Thompson, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 170 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1995; 1-3 May 12, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Jurisprudence; May 24, 1995, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 24, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the requirement that certain child support payments be 1-9 forwarded by electronic funds transfer. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 154.242(b), Family Code, as added by H.B. 1-12 No. 655, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is 1-13 amended to read as follows: 1-14 (b) A local registry may transmit child support payments to 1-15 the Title IV-D agency by electronic funds transfer if the Title 1-16 IV-D agency agrees to accept electronic payment. An obligor may 1-17 make payments, with the approval of the court entering the order, 1-18 directly to the bank account of the obligee by electronic transfer 1-19 and provide verification of the deposit to the local registry. A 1-20 local registry in a county that makes deposits into personal bank 1-21 accounts by electronic funds transfer as of April 1, 1995, shall 1-22 transmit a child support payment to an obligee by electronic funds 1-23 transfer if the obligee maintains a bank account. 1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1996. 1-25 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-30 * * * * *