By Moreno H.B. No. 3385 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3385: By Madden C.S.H.B. No. 3385 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the disclosure of child support payment status by a 1-3 candidate for public elective office. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 141, Election Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 141.0315 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 141.0315. DISCLOSURE OF CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENT STATUS. 1-8 At the time a candidate files an application for a place on the 1-9 ballot for an election to public office, the candidate must attach 1-10 to the application an affidavit stating whether the candidate is 1-11 delinquent on court-ordered child support payments, current on 1-12 court-ordered child support payments, or has not been court ordered 1-13 to pay child support. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-15 applies only to candidates filing for public office on or after 1-16 that date. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.