1-1 By: Thompson, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Truan) H.B. No. 1880
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1997;
1-3 April 10, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 International Relations, Trade, and Technology; May 8, 1997,
1-5 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
1-6 following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 8, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1880 By: Truan
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the authority of the attorney general to enter into
1-11 agreements with other jurisdictions for the establishment of child
1-12 support and child custody orders.
1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14 SECTION 1. Section 231.002, Family Code, is amended by
1-15 amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
1-16 follows:
1-17 (d) Consistent with federal law and any international treaty
1-18 or convention to which the United States is a party, the Title IV-D
1-19 agency may:
1-20 (1) on approval by and in cooperation with the
1-21 governor, pursue negotiations and enter into reciprocal
1-22 arrangements with the federal government, another state, or a
1-23 foreign country or a political subdivision of the federal
1-24 government, state, or foreign country to:
1-25 (A) establish and enforce child support
1-26 obligations; and
1-27 (B) establish mechanisms to enforce an order
1-28 providing for possession of or access to a child rendered under
1-29 Chapter 153;
1-30 (2) spend money appropriated to the agency for child
1-31 support enforcement to engage in international child support
1-32 enforcement; and
1-33 (3) spend other money appropriated to the agency
1-34 necessary for the agency to conduct the agency's activities under
1-35 Subdivision (1).
1-36 (e) [(d)] The Title IV-D agency may take any action with
1-37 respect to execution, collection, and release of a judgment or lien
1-38 for child support necessary to satisfy the judgment or lien.
1-39 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-40 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-41 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-42 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-43 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-44 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-45 passage, and it is so enacted.
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