By:  Luna                                               S.B. No. 11

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the enforcement of a child support obligation in a suit

 1-2     to terminate the parent-child relationship.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 102.009, Family Code, is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), the following are

 1-7     entitled to service of citation on the filing of a petition in an

 1-8     original suit:

 1-9                 (1)  a managing conservator;

1-10                 (2)  a possessory conservator;

1-11                 (3)  a person having possession of or access to the

1-12     child under an order;

1-13                 (4)  a person required by law or by order to provide

1-14     for the support of the child;

1-15                 (5)  a guardian of the person of the child;

1-16                 (6)  a guardian of the estate of the child;

1-17                 (7)  each parent as to whom the parent-child

1-18     relationship has not been terminated or process has not been waived

1-19     under Chapter 161;

1-20                 (8)  an alleged father, unless there is attached to the

1-21     petition an affidavit of waiver of interest in a child executed by

1-22     the alleged father as provided by Chapter 161; [and]

1-23                 (9)  the Department of Protective and Regulatory

 2-1     Services, if the petition requests that the department be appointed

 2-2     as managing conservator of the child; and

 2-3                 (10)  the attorney general, if the petition requests

 2-4     the termination of the parent-child relationship and the Title IV-D

 2-5     agency has filed with the court a notice of assignment under

 2-6     Chapter 231 with respect to the support rights of the child.

 2-7           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-8           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-12     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.