By Solis H.B. No. 2155
75R6153 SKB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the enforcement of possession orders by the Title IV-D
1-3 agency.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 231.002(a), Family Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) The Title IV-D agency may:
1-8 (1) accept, transfer, and expend funds, subject to the
1-9 General Appropriations Act, made available by the federal or state
1-10 government or by another public or private source for the purpose
1-11 of carrying out this chapter;
1-12 (2) adopt rules for the provision of child support
1-13 services;
1-14 (3) initiate legal actions needed to implement this
1-15 chapter; [and]
1-16 (4) enter into contracts or agreements necessary to
1-17 administer this chapter; and
1-18 (5) initiate legal actions to enforce possession
1-19 orders issued under Chapter 153.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-21 applies only to a possession order issued on or after that date.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.