By Moreno H.B. No. 3385 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. 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. (a) At the time a candidate files an application 1-6 for a place on the ballot for an election to public office, the 1-7 candidate must attach to the application an affidavit stating 1-8 whether the candidate is delinquent on court-ordered child support 1-9 payments, current on court-ordered child support payments, or has 1-10 not been court ordered to pay child support. 1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-12 applies only to candidates filing for public elective office on or 1-13 after that date. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.