By Hamric H.B. No. 3144
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to child support payments.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 14, Section 14.0501 (d), Family Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 14.0501. (d) A local registry shall accept child
1-7 support payments made only by <personal check,> money order, or
1-8 cashier's check. <A local registry may refuse payment by personal
1-9 check when a pattern of abuse regarding the use of personal checks
1-10 has been established. Abuse is defined to include checks drawn on
1-11 insufficient funds, abusive or offensive language written on the
1-12 check intentional mutilation of the instrument or other actions
1-13 that delay or disrupt the registry's operation.>
1-14 SECTION 2. 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 separate
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.