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.
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