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.