By Goodman H.B. No. 3283 75R9362 JMM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the administration of the child support enforcement 1-3 duties of the Office of Attorney General. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 402, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subchapter D to read as follows: 1-7 SUBCHAPTER D. CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT 1-8 Sec. 402.101. CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT BOARD. (a) The 1-9 governor shall designate individuals to serve on a board to provide 1-10 oversight of the child support enforcement division of the attorney 1-11 general's office. The board shall consist of: 1-12 (1) at least one person to represent the general 1-13 public; 1-14 (2) at least one person who is a former or retired 1-15 judge and has served on a court of this state having jurisdiction 1-16 of suits affecting the parent-child relationship; 1-17 (3) at least one person who is or has been an employee 1-18 of a county domestic relations office or other county child support 1-19 office or who is an active, former, or retired district clerk of a 1-20 county of this state; 1-21 (4) at least one person who is an attorney actively 1-22 engaged in the practice of family law in this state; and 1-23 (5) the attorney general. 1-24 (b) Except for the attorney general, a member of the board 2-1 serves at the pleasure of the governor. 2-2 Sec. 402.102. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. (a) The board shall 2-3 designate an individual to serve as executive director of the child 2-4 support enforcement division. 2-5 (b) The executive director shall exercise all rights, 2-6 powers, and duties imposed or conferred by law on the child support 2-7 enforcement division or on the attorney general that specifically 2-8 relate to the enforcement or administration of the attorney 2-9 general's child support enforcement functions. 2-10 Sec. 402.103. EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS. The governor and the 2-11 Legislative Budget Board shall monitor the expenditures of the 2-12 office of the attorney general for child support services and the 2-13 use or nonuse of money appropriated for those services and shall 2-14 make proposals, as appropriate, under Subchapter A, Chapter 317, to 2-15 seek approval for the expenditure of that money. 2-16 Sec. 402.104. DEDICATION OF FUNDS. (a) All money received 2-17 from the federal government by the attorney general for child 2-18 support enforcement may be appropriated only for child support 2-19 enforcement. All appropriations remain dedicated for this purpose. 2-20 (b) All other appropriations made to the attorney general 2-21 for child support enforcement may only be expended for the purposes 2-22 for which the money was appropriated. 2-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.