By Puente H.B. No. 2424 75R1053 MWV-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to deductions of the amount of certain child support 1-3 awards from lottery winnings. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 466, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 466.4075 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 466.4075. DEDUCTIONS OF CHILD SUPPORT FROM CERTAIN 1-8 LOTTERY WINNINGS. (a) This section applies only to a prize that 1-9 is required to be awarded by the director under Section 466.402(b). 1-10 (b) The executive director shall deduct an amount a court 1-11 has ordered a person to pay as child support from a person's 1-12 winnings if the executive director has been provided with a copy of 1-13 a court order or a writ of withholding issued under Chapter 158, 1-14 Family Code, or notice of a child support lien created under 1-15 Subchapter G, Chapter 157, Family Code. 1-16 (c) If a person's winnings exceed the amount deducted under 1-17 Subsection (b) and Section 466.407, the executive director shall 1-18 pay the balance to the person. The executive director shall 1-19 transfer the money deducted under Subsection (b) to the clerk of 1-20 the court that issued the order for placement in the registry of 1-21 the court. 1-22 (d) The commission shall adopt rules under this section 1-23 that: 1-24 (1) allow a person with a court order under Chapter 2-1 157 or 158, Family Code, to file copies of the order with the 2-2 commission; and 2-3 (2) describe the procedures used by the commission to 2-4 compare the list of persons winning prizes under Section 466.402(b) 2-5 with a list of obligors compiled from orders filed under 2-6 Subdivision (1) and to make the deductions required under this 2-7 section. 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.