By Wilson                                               H.B. No. 55

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the requirement that child support payments be used for

 1-3     the benefit of the child.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 154.001, Family Code, is amended by

 1-6     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

 1-7           (c) A periodic child support payment ordered by a court for

 1-8     the benefit of a child may only be used to provide support for the

 1-9     child.  This subsection does not apply to the payment of an

1-10     arrearage of child support to the extent that the recipient of the

1-11     support has used other money for the support of the child.

1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.