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      By Serna                                        H.B. No. 3109

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the Domestic Relations Offices having access to and

 1-3     transmittal of locate and discovery information to assist location

 1-4     of persons or property to establish, modify, or enforce a child

 1-5     support order.

 1-6           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-7           SECTION 1.  Chapter 203, Family Code, is amended by adding

 1-8     Sec. 203.008 to read as follows:

 1-9        Sec. 203.008  INFORMATION TO ASSIST IN LOCATION OF PERSONS OR

1-10                                 PROPERTY. 

1-11           (a)  A Domestic Relations Office may obtain information

1-12     relating to the identity, location, employment, compensation,

1-13     benefits, income, and property holdings or other asset of any

1-14     person from a state or local government agency, private company,

1-15     institution, or other entity as necessary to establish, modify, or

1-16     enforce a child support order.

1-17           (b)  A government agency, private company, institution, or

1-18     other entity shall provide the information requested under

1-19     Subsection (a) and shall, subject to safeguards on privacy and

1-20     information security, provide the information in the most efficient

1-21     and expeditious manner available, including electronic or automated

1-22     transfer and interface.  Any individual or entity disclosing

1-23     information under this section in response to a request from a

1-24     Domestic Relations Office may not be held liable in any civil

 2-1     action or proceeding to any person for such disclosure of

 2-2     information.

 2-3           SECTION 2.  This act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-4           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.