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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