1-1     By:  Luna                                               S.B. No. 11

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed April 15, 1997; April 18, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;

 1-4     April 29, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,

 1-5     Nays 0; April 29, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the enforcement of a child support obligation in a suit

 1-9     to terminate the parent-child relationship.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 102.009, Family Code, is

1-12     amended to read as follows:

1-13           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), the following are

1-14     entitled to service of citation on the filing of a petition in an

1-15     original suit:

1-16                 (1)  a managing conservator;

1-17                 (2)  a possessory conservator;

1-18                 (3)  a person having possession of or access to the

1-19     child under an order;

1-20                 (4)  a person required by law or by order to provide

1-21     for the support of the child;

1-22                 (5)  a guardian of the person of the child;

1-23                 (6)  a guardian of the estate of the child;

1-24                 (7)  each parent as to whom the parent-child

1-25     relationship has not been terminated or process has not been waived

1-26     under Chapter 161;

1-27                 (8)  an alleged father, unless there is attached to the

1-28     petition an affidavit of waiver of interest in a child executed by

1-29     the alleged father as provided by Chapter 161; [and]

1-30                 (9)  the Department of Protective and Regulatory

1-31     Services, if the petition requests that the department be appointed

1-32     as managing conservator of the child; and

1-33                 (10)  the attorney general, if the petition requests

1-34     the termination of the parent-child relationship and the Title IV-D

1-35     agency has filed with the court a notice of assignment under

1-36     Chapter 231 with respect to the support rights of the child.

1-37           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-38           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-39     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-40     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-41     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-42     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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