By Thompson                                      H.B. No. 409

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of the attorney general to negotiate with

 1-3     the United Mexican States regarding the enforcement of child

 1-4     support and child custody orders.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  The attorney general may spend funds appropriated

 1-7     for the enforcement of child support to pursue negotiations with

 1-8     the United Mexican States or an individual state of Mexico to

 1-9     provide for the international enforcement of child support and

1-10     child custody orders, service of process, and the detention of

1-11     abducted children and persons who abduct children.

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.