By: Harris S.B. No. 1382
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to certain fees under the Family Code.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 110.002, Family Code, is amended by
1-4 amending Subsection (a) to read as follows:
1-5 (a) The clerk of the court may collect a filing fee of $15
1-6 [in a suit] for filing:
1-7 (1) a suit for modification;
1-8 (2) a motion for enforcement;
1-9 (3) a notice of delinquency; [or]
1-10 (4) a motion to transfer; or
1-11 (5) a waiver under Section 1.82(d).
1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.