By Thompson H.B. No. 410
75R2678 JMM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the establishment of a statewide registry of child
1-3 support and custody orders.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. The heading for Chapter 194, Health and Safety
1-6 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 CHAPTER 194. RECORDS OF MARRIAGE, [AND]
1-8 DIVORCE, AND CHILD SUPPORT AND CUSTODY [RECORDS]
1-9 SECTION 2. Chapter 194, Health and Safety Code, is amended
1-10 by adding Section 194.0025 to read as follows:
1-11 Sec. 194.0025. REPORT OF CHILD SUPPORT AND CUSTODY ORDERS.
1-12 (a) The county clerk shall file with the bureau of vital
1-13 statistics a copy of each order that provides for the
1-14 conservatorship, support, or possession of and access to a child
1-15 that is rendered by a court in the county. The clerk shall file
1-16 the copy not later than the 90th day after the date the order was
1-17 rendered. The clerk may collect a $1 fee as costs in the suit in
1-18 which the order was rendered for filing with the bureau of vital
1-19 statistics the copy of an order or any subsequent information under
1-20 this section.
1-21 (b) The county clerk shall file under this section any
1-22 change in information received by the clerk under Section 105.006,
1-23 Family Code, and any modification of an order under Chapter 156,
1-24 Family Code. The county clerk may not report information from an
2-1 order under this section that the court orders not to be disclosed
2-2 under Section 105.006(c), Family Code.
2-3 SECTION 3. Section 194.003, Health and Safety Code, is
2-4 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
2-5 (c) The bureau of vital statistics shall maintain a
2-6 statewide alphabetical index, under the name of the child, of each
2-7 order filed with the bureau that provides for the conservatorship,
2-8 support, or possession of and access to a child.
2-9 SECTION 4. Section 194.004(a), Health and Safety Code, is
2-10 amended to read as follows:
2-11 (a) The bureau of vital statistics shall furnish on request
2-12 any information it has on record relating to:
2-13 (1) any marriage, divorce, or annulment of marriage;
2-14 or
2-15 (2) an order that provides for the conservatorship,
2-16 support, or possession of and access to a child.
2-17 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
2-18 applies only to an order providing for the conservatorship,
2-19 support, or possession of and access to a child that is rendered on
2-20 or after that date. An order rendered before the effective date of
2-21 this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the order was
2-22 rendered, and the former law is continued in effect for that
2-23 purpose.
2-24 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
2-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.