By: Luna S.B. No. 11
97S1149/1
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.