By Thompson, Wise, Solis, Serna, Cuellar, et al.      H.B. No. 1880

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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     other nations regarding the enforcement of child support and child

 1-4     custody orders.

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

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 231.002(a), Family Code, is amended to

 1-7     read as follows:

 1-8           (a)  The Title IV-D agency may:

 1-9                 (1)  accept, transfer, and expend funds, subject to the

1-10     General Appropriations Act, made available by the federal or state

1-11     government or by another public or private source for the purpose

1-12     of carrying out this chapter;

1-13                 (2)  adopt rules for the provision of child support

1-14     services;

1-15                 (3)  initiate legal actions needed to implement this

1-16     chapter;  [and]

1-17                 (4)  enter into contracts or agreements necessary to

1-18     administer this chapter; and

1-19                 (5)  pursue negotiations and enter into agreements with

1-20     other nations or their political subdivisions to provide for the

1-21     international establishment and enforcement of child support and

1-22     child custody orders.

1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

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

 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.