By Thompson, Wise, Solis, Serna, Cuellar, et al. H.B. No. 1880
75R6325 SKB-F
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.