By Wilson H.B. No. 55 75R617 JMM-D 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.