1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authority of the attorney general to enter into
1-3 agreements with other jurisdictions for the establishment 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. Section 231.002, Family Code, is amended by
1-7 amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
1-8 follows:
1-9 (d) Consistent with federal law and any international treaty
1-10 or convention to which the United States is a party and that has
1-11 been ratified by the United States Congress, the Title IV-D agency
1-12 may:
1-13 (1) on approval by and in cooperation with the
1-14 governor, pursue negotiations and enter into reciprocal
1-15 arrangements with the federal government, another state, or a
1-16 foreign country or a political subdivision of the federal
1-17 government, state, or foreign country to:
1-18 (A) establish and enforce child support
1-19 obligations; and
1-20 (B) establish mechanisms to enforce an order
1-21 providing for possession of or access to a child rendered under
1-22 Chapter 153;
1-23 (2) spend money appropriated to the agency for child
1-24 support enforcement to engage in international child support
2-1 enforcement; and
2-2 (3) spend other money appropriated to the agency
2-3 necessary for the agency to conduct the agency's activities under
2-4 Subdivision (1).
2-5 (e) [(d)] The Title IV-D agency may take any action with
2-6 respect to execution, collection, and release of a judgment or lien
2-7 for child support necessary to satisfy the judgment or lien.
2-8 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1880 was passed by the House on April
8, 1997, by a non-record vote; that the House refused to concur in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1880 on May 15, 1997, and requested
the appointment of a conference committee to consider the
differences between the two houses; and that the House adopted the
conference committee report on H.B. No. 1880 on May 24, 1997, by a
non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1880 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 12, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
1880 on May 24, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor