By Thompson H.B. No. 409 75R2684 JMM-D 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.