By Goodman                                             H.B. No. 974
       74R2800 JMM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the placement of a lien on a motor vehicle for certain
    1-3  persons delinquent in the payment of child support.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 14.972(c), Family Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  The lien attaches to all personal property not exempt
    1-8  under provisions of the Texas Constitution, including all claims
    1-9  for negligence, personal injury, or workers' compensation,
   1-10  <including> an insurance award for any of those claims, and a motor
   1-11  vehicle, owned by the obligor on or after the date on which the
   1-12  lien attaches.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.