By Janek                                         H.B. No. 611

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to payment of child support for a child committed to and

 1-3     residing in a Texas Youth Commission facility.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 154, Family Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 154.012 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 154.012.  PAYMENT OF SUPPORT WHILE CHILD IS COMMITTED TO

 1-8     TEXAS YOUTH COMMISSION.  The court shall order either or both

 1-9     parents to pay child support through the Title IV-D agency while

1-10     the child is committed to and residing in a Texas Youth Commission

1-11     detention facility.  The Texas Youth Commission may enforce the

1-12     payment of child support while the child is committed to and

1-13     residing in a commission detention facility.

1-14           SECTION 2.  Section 154.004, Family Code, is amended by

1-15     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

1-16           (c)  The court shall order the payment of child support

1-17     through the Title IV-D agency while the child is committed to and

1-18     residing in a Texas Youth Commission detention facility pursuant to

1-19     Section 54.04.  A payment collected under this subsection by the

1-20     Title IV-D agency shall be deposited to the credit of the general

1-21     revenue fund.

1-22           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.  This

1-23     Act applies only to a payment of child support due on or after the

1-24     effective date of this Act.  A payment of child support due before

 2-1     the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed

 2-2     immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is

 2-3     continued in effect for that purpose.

 2-4           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.