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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