By Thompson H.B. No. 1174 75R5194 JMM-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the requirement that certain persons obligated to pay 1-3 child support pay an additional amount for child care. 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. ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR CHILD CARE. (a) If 1-8 the court finds in a child support order that the obligee must 1-9 obtain child care for the child because of the obligee's 1-10 employment, the court shall order the obligor to pay the obligee an 1-11 additional amount of support as provided by this section. 1-12 (b) An obligor each month shall pay as an additional amount 1-13 of support: 1-14 (1) $200 for one child younger than two years of age 1-15 and $100 for each additional child of that age range; 1-16 (2) $150 for one child two years of age or older and 1-17 younger than six years of age and $75 for each additional child of 1-18 that age range; and 1-19 (3) $100 for one child six years of age or older and 1-20 younger than 12 years of age and $50 for each additional child of 1-21 that age range. 1-22 (c) For the purposes of Subsection (b), the age of a child 1-23 is determined according to the child's age on the first day of the 1-24 month. 2-1 (d) A requirement to pay an amount under this section may be 2-2 enforced, modified, or clarified in the same manner as any other 2-3 requirement to pay child support under this title. 2-4 (e) This section does not limit the authority of the court 2-5 to render or modify a requirement to pay additional support for 2-6 child care that contains a provision for payment of an amount that 2-7 is in addition to or inconsistent with the amount required by this 2-8 section. 2-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-10 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.